Lansdowne Primary Academy

Lansdowne Primary Academy is performing strongly overall, with all inspected areas judged at the strong standard and safeguarding standards met. Pupils make impressive progress, disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND achieve particularly well, and reading, attendance, behaviour, curriculum, early years, inclusion, leadership, and personal development are all notable strengths. The school is part of The Gateway Learning Community, is much larger than average, and serves a community with well above average levels of disadvantage. It also runs a specially resourced SEND provision for pupils with social communication and moderate learning difficulties. The report highlights an embedded culture of high expectations, expert teaching, and meticulous support for pupils who face barriers to learning or wellbeing. Pupils attend regularly, behave with integrity, and benefit from a broad, rich curriculum and enrichment offer. Leaders, trustees, and staff work closely together, and parents are highly positive about the support families receive. The only clear development point is for leaders to refine their quality assurance and monitoring so they can further enhance the school's already high-quality offer. There are no significant areas of underperformance identified in the inspection findings.

Strengths

• Pupils make impressive progress and make meaningful links across the curriculum.
• Disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND achieve particularly well, with gaps closing rapidly.
• Pupils in the SEND resource base achieve highly through expert support matched to EHC plans.
• Pupils become fluent, confident readers who love reading across a broad reading diet.
• Attendance is low and improving, with tenacious support for families facing barriers.
• Pupils behave with integrity, are resilient, and show respect; bullying is rare.
• The curriculum identifies essential knowledge and is taught consistently by expert staff.
• Teachers check understanding precisely and adapt teaching to close gaps in reading, writing, and mathematics.
• Early years provision is ambitious, with expert staff building vocabulary and phonics from the start.
• Inclusion is meticulous, with strong support for language and communication needs and disadvantaged pupils.
• Leadership and governance are highly effective, with trustees providing rigorous challenge and support.
• Personal development and wellbeing are underpinned by high-quality pastoral support and a rich PSHE and enrichment offer.

Areas for Improvement

• Leaders' quality assurance and monitoring arrangements need further refinement to enhance the school's high-quality offer across all areas.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Lansdowne Primary Academy attended 94.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.5% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.6% of pupils at Lansdowne Primary Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Lansdowne Primary Academy had 18.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 24.9% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 19.9% of pupils at Lansdowne Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 9 pupils.

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Lansdowne Primary Academy received £7,917 and spent £7,672 for each of its 664 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £711,000 (£1,070 per pupil).

Across all 5 schools of Gateway Learning Community, income was £8,044 and spending £8,021 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Lansdowne Primary Academy is part of Gateway Learning Community, which runs 5 schools. The nearest others:

• Tilbury Pioneer Academy Tilbury
• The Gateway Primary Free School Grays
• The Gateway Academy Grays
• Herringham Primary Academy Grays

What is Lansdowne Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Lansdowne Primary Academy is Strong standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Lansdowne Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Lansdowne Primary Academy was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Lansdowne Primary Academy have?

Lansdowne Primary Academy has 667 pupils on roll.

What age range does Lansdowne Primary Academy cover?

Lansdowne Primary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Lansdowne Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 74% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Lansdowne Primary Academy?

Lansdowne Primary Academy is at Lansdowne Road, Tilbury, Essex, RM18 7QB.