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Fairhouse Community Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Academy
Long Riding, Basildon SS14 1QP · fairhouseprimaryschool.co.uk · 01268 833915
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jun 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 69%
- 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
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 396
- 94% of 420 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 38.4%
- First language not English
- 29.8%
- 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, 24 families put the school first and 29 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 | 29 | 24 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 44 | 39 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 57 | 48 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 32 | 27 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 57 | 47 | 0.8 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 69% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 5% 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 | |||
| ▲69% | 62% | ||
| ▼5% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●105 | 106 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 114899)
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 15 June 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Fairhouse Community Primary School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 14 Jun 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Apr 2016
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114899), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Apr 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114899)
Jan 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114899)
What parents said
83% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (46 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 83%
- Replies
- 46
- 11% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 78% who raised concerns
based on the 46% who had a child bullied
based on 11 parents (24%) with SEND