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Janet Duke Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Sponsored academy
Markhams Chase, Laindon, Basildon SS15 5LS · janetdukeprimary.co.uk · 01268 543744
On the mapSearch near SS15 5LS
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Jun 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 38%
- 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
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 611
- 97% of 630 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 54.2%
- First language not English
- 24.4%
- 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, 52 families put the school first and 57 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 | 57 | 52 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 66 | 48 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 89 | 67 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 82 | 70 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 56 | 44 | 0.8 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 38% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 2% 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 | |||
| ▼38% | 62% | ||
| ▼2% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼100 | 106 | ||
| ▼100 | 105 | ||
| ▼100 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 114993)
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Janet Duke Primary School on 30 June 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 30 Jun 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Needs attention |
| Attendance and behaviour | Needs attention |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114993), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Jun 2022Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2015Requires improvement
Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114993)
What parents said
63% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (43 replies, to 2 April 2023).
- Recommend
- 63%
- Replies
- 43
- 7% · 2 Apr 2023
based on the 88% who raised concerns
based on the 49% who had a child bullied
based on 17 parents (40%) with SEND