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Limes Farm Infant School and Nursery
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Academy
Limes Avenue, Chigwell IG7 5LP · limesfarm.efspt.org · 020 8501 1115
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Oct 2022
- 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
- 182
- 2 over 180 places · 101%
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 23.3%
- First language not English
- 55.5%
- 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, 38 families put the school first and 41 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 | 41 | 38 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 41 | 35 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 47 | 43 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 57 | 49 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 31 | 25 | 0.8 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 19 October 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Limes Farm Infant School and Nursery was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 18 Oct 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, May 2013
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114962), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Nov 2017Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114962)
May 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114962)
Jun 2010Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114962)
What parents said
92% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (36 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 92%
- Replies
- 36
- 21% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 75% who raised concerns
based on the 56% who had a child bullied