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Hillhouse CofE Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Academy
Ninefields Estate, Waltham Abbey EN9 3EL · hillhouse.essex.sch.uk · 01992 715999
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Nov 2022
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 43%
- 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
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 341
- 99% of 345 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 22%
- First language not English
- 8.5%
- 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, 48 families put the school first and 49 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 | 49 | 48 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 58 | 54 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 50 | 49 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 72 | 1.2▲ | 82% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 45 | 50 | 1.1▲ | 90% |
Results
In 2024/25, 43% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% 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 | |||
| ▼43% | 62% | ||
| ●7% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼103 | 106 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 133254)
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 16 November 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Hillhouse CofE Primary School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 15 Nov 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2015
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 133254), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jun 2015Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 133254)
Jul 2013Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 133254)
What parents said
98% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (58 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 98%
- Replies
- 58
- 19% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 16% who had a child bullied