Greensted Primary School & Nursery

Greensted Primary School & Nursery is a happy, friendly and inclusive school where pupils feel safe, welcome and valued. Inspectors found high expectations for achievement, exceptional behaviour and outstanding personal development, with pupils benefiting from a wide range of character-building opportunities, leadership roles and a strong reading culture. Early years provision is also outstanding, and children are happy, confident and well prepared for Year 1. The curriculum is ambitious and accessible to all pupils, including those with SEND, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. Leaders, governors and trustees are ambitious for pupils, staff feel well supported, and parents are positive about the school. The school is part of the Lee Chapel Multi-Academy Trust and was formed from the merger of the junior and infant schools in 2022; a new headteacher joined in 2023. There are two main areas for improvement. In some subjects, the precise knowledge pupils should learn and remember is not clearly identified, which limits how well pupils build on prior learning. Assessment in some subjects is also not closely matched to what pupils have been taught, so gaps and misconceptions are not always picked up and pupils do not achieve as highly as they might.

Strengths

• Pupils behave exceptionally well and show positive relationships with each other and staff.
• Personal development is outstanding, with strong character-building, careers and life-skills opportunities.
• Early years provision is outstanding, and children are happy, confident and achieve well.
• The curriculum is ambitious and accessible to all pupils, including those with SEND.
• A joy of reading pervades the school, with well-matched phonics and strong support for pupils who fall behind.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of clubs, teams, residentials and leadership roles.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Staff appreciate support for training, workload and well-being.
• Governors and trustees are ambitious for pupils and passionate about the school’s motto, ‘Excellence for all’.
• Parents are positive about the school and pupils are proud of their school.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, the precise knowledge pupils should learn and remember is not clearly identified.
• Pupils cannot always build on previous learning and deepen their understanding in some subjects.
• Assessments do not always link accurately to what pupils have been learning.
• Gaps and misconceptions are not always identified in some subjects.
• Some ‘dive-deeper’ questions do not build on prior learning or challenge pupils’ thinking.
• Pupils do not always achieve as highly as they might because of weaknesses in curriculum definition and assessment.

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 Greensted Primary School & Nursery attended 94.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.3% 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, 0.4% of pupils at Greensted Primary School & Nursery 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 Greensted Primary School & Nursery had 23.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 6.2% of pupils at Greensted Primary School & Nursery were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

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 Greensted Primary School & Nursery received £6,493 and spent £5,914 for each of its 505 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £545,000 (£1,080 per pupil).

Across all 6 schools of Lee Chapel Multi Academy Trust, income was £6,735 and spending £6,108 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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All schools in Basildon · Essex local authority: places and applications

Greensted Primary School & Nursery is part of Lee Chapel Multi Academy Trust, which runs 6 schools. The nearest others:

• Northlands Primary School and Nursery Basildon
• Ryedene Primary and Nursery School Basildon
• Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery Basildon
• Lee Chapel Primary School Basildon
• The Phoenix Primary School Basildon

What is Greensted Primary School & Nursery's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Greensted Primary School & Nursery is Good, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was Greensted Primary School & Nursery last inspected by Ofsted?

Greensted Primary School & Nursery was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does Greensted Primary School & Nursery have?

Greensted Primary School & Nursery has 520 pupils on roll.

What age range does Greensted Primary School & Nursery cover?

Greensted Primary School & Nursery for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Greensted Primary School & Nursery's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Greensted Primary School & Nursery?

Greensted Primary School & Nursery is at Kirby Road, Basildon, Essex, SS14 1RX.