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Chigwell Row Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Academy
Lambourne Road, Chigwell IG7 6EZ · chigwell.efspt.org · 020 8500 3355
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Nov 2023
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.5
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 27
- 35% of 78 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Free school meals
- 25.9%
- First language not English
- 18.5%
- 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, 6 families put the school first and 11 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 | 11 | 6 | 0.5 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 10 | 9 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 15 | 9 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 22 | 0.7 | 100% |
Ofsted
Chigwell Row Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 7 November 2023, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 7 Nov 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, Nov 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114825), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
- Jul 2023Monitoring visitEffective action
Nov 2022Inadequate
Quality of education Inadequate Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Nov 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114825)
Nov 2010Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114825)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (22 replies, to 2 September 2024).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 22
- 1% · 2 Sept 2024
based on the 68% who raised concerns
based on the 18% who had a child bullied