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Fordham All Saints CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Sponsored academy
Mill Road, Fordham, Colchester CO6 3NN · allsaints-fordham.essex.sch.uk · 01206 240251
Overview
- Ofsted
- Inadequate
- 2019 framework · inspected Nov 2022
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 60%
- 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
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 84
- 73% of 115 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 2.4%
- First language not English
- 1.2%
- 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, 14 families put the school first and 14 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 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 9 | 7 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 16 | 15 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 60% 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 63%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ●60% | 62% | ||
| ▼0% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●106 | 106 | ||
| ●104 | 105 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 115078)
Ofsted
Fordham All Saints CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School was judged Inadequate at its last graded inspection, on 29 November 2022, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Inadequate
- Inspected
- 29 Nov 2022
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding not effectiveInspection reports
Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115078)
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Inadequate |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Mar 2008
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 115078), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Mar 2008Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115078)