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Glebe Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–11 · Sponsored academy
Creswick Avenue, Rayleigh SS6 9HG · glebeschool.com · 01268 784253
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Oct 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 60%
- 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
- 403
- 88% of 459 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 19.3%
- First language not English
- 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, 42 families put the school first and 46 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 | 46 | 42 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 47 | 46 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 39 | 36 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 43 | 43 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 58 | 64 | 1.1▲ | 84% |
Results
In 2024/25, 60% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 3% 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 | |||
| ●60% | 62% | ||
| ▼3% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●107 | 106 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 114889)
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Glebe Primary School on 8 October 2024 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 8 Oct 2024
- 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: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Mar 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114889), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2022Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jun 2017Good
Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114889)
What parents said
66% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (101 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 66%
- Replies
- 101
- 25% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 84% who raised concerns
based on the 46% who had a child bullied
based on 29 parents (29%) with SEND