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Margaretting Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Academy
Penny's Lane, Margaretting, Ingatestone CM4 0HA · margaretting.essex.sch.uk · 01277 352114
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jan 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 80%
- 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
- 0.7
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 70
- 83% of 84 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 24.3%
- First language not English
- 4.3%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Life Education Trust
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, 8 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 | 8 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 4 | 3 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 7 | 5 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 12 | 8 | 0.7 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 80% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 30% 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 | |||
| ▲80% | 62% | ||
| ▲30% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▲113 | 106 | ||
| ▲112 | 105 | ||
| ▲115 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 115116)
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 25 January 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Margaretting Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 25 Jan 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2014
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 115116), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Dec 2017Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115116)
Feb 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115116)
Mar 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115116)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (14 replies, to 1 January 2024).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 14
- 18% · 1 Jan 2024
based on the 79% who raised concerns
based on the 7% who had a child bullied