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Wimbish Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Academy
Tye Green, Wimbish, Saffron Walden CB10 2XE · wimbishprimary.org · 01799 599245
On the mapSearch near CB10 2XE
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · May 2022
- Key stage 2, 2023/24
- 27%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Essex 62%, England 61%
- 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
- 41
- 39% of 105 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 24.4%
- First language not English
- 9.8%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Anglian Learning
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, 3 families put the school first and 5 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 | 5 | 3 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 5 | 4 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 10 | 8 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2023/24, 27% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 0% the higher standard. Across Essex it was 62%, and across England 61%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| hidden | 62% | ||
| hidden | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| hidden | 106 | ||
| hidden | 105 | ||
| hidden | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 114990)
hidden: too few pupils to publish
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 5 May 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Wimbish Primary Academy was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 5 May 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114990)
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Dec 2011
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 114990), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Dec 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114990)
Dec 2008Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 114990)