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Chipping Ongar Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Academy
Greensted Road, Ongar CM5 9LA · chippingongar.essex.sch.uk · 01277 363789
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jan 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 64%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Essex 63%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- 0.82 mi
- 1.33 km · Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 1.4
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 208
- 99% of 210 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 13.5%
- First language not English
- 1%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Bridge Academy Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2025, the last place offered on distance went to a home 0.82 mi (1.33 km) from the school. Source: Essex Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 43 families put the school first and 30 places were offered; 67% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
Demand for places
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 30 | 43 | 1.4▲ | 67% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 30 | 36 | 1.2▲ | 83% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 30 | 30 | 1 | 93% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 30 | 31 | 1▲ | 97% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 100% |
Last distance offered
| Reception | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 0.82 mi1.33 km | |
Results
In 2024/25, 64% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 11% 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 | |||
| ●64% | 62% | ||
| ▲11% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●104 | 106 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 114948)
Ofsted
Chipping Ongar Primary School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 11 January 2023, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 11 Jan 2023
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Apr 2014
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114948), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Mar 2018Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114948)
Apr 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114948)
Jun 2012Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114948)
What parents said
77% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (95 replies, to 1 January 2024).
- Recommend
- 77%
- Replies
- 95
- 46% · 1 Jan 2024
based on the 80% who raised concerns
based on the 26% who had a child bullied
based on 14 parents (15%) with SEND