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Maldon Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Sponsored academy
Wantz Chase, Maldon CM9 5DQ · maldon-tkat.org · 01621 853409
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jul 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 46%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Essex 63%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 171
- 71% of 240 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 50.3%
- First language not English
- 13.5%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2025, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Essex Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 17 families put the school first and 21 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 21 | 17 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 21 | 17 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 24 | 21 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 21 | 15 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 16 | 13 | 0.8 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 46% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 4% the higher standard. Across Essex it was 63%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼46% | 62% | ||
| ▼4% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼103 | 106 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
| ▼100 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 114806)
Ofsted
Maldon Primary School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 18 July 2023, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 18 Jul 2023
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Feb 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114806), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
- Mar 2023Monitoring visitEffective action
- Jul 2022Monitoring visitEffective action
Feb 2022Inadequate
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Inadequate Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Not effective
Before September 2019
Jan 2013Good
Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114806)
What parents said
69% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (48 replies, to 2 January 2023).
- Recommend
- 69%
- Replies
- 48
- 23% · 2 Jan 2023
based on the 85% who raised concerns
based on the 44% who had a child bullied
based on 16 parents (33%) with SEND