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Acorn Infant Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Academy
Spa Road, Witham CM8 1NA · acornacademy.net · 01376 512605
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Dec 2024
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.6
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 196
- 73% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 24.1%
- First language not English
- 4.6%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Bridge Academy 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, 41 families put the school first and 68 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 | 68 | 41 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 56 | 41 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 54 | 52 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 67 | 61 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 66 | 48 | 0.7 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Acorn Infant Academy on 17 December 2024 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 17 Dec 2024
- 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: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Nov 2023
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114944), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2023Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114944)
Jan 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114944)
Sept 2012Requires 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 114944)
What parents said
91% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (32 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 91%
- Replies
- 32
- 14% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 56% who raised concerns
based on the 31% who had a child bullied
based on 10 parents (31%) with SEND