Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School

Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School has been rated as good overall, demonstrating solid performance across all evaluated areas, including the quality of education, behavior and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. The school emphasizes cooperative values, fostering a supportive environment where older students mentor younger ones, and they report a positive atmosphere facilitated by effective staff support. Parents generally feel satisfied, expressing confidence in the school's capabilities and their children's safety and happiness while attending.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate strong cooperative values and support each other.
• High-quality phonics teaching enables children to learn to read effectively.
• Leaders have designed an ambitious curriculum that most subjects implement well.
• Strong provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Pupils engage in various extracurricular clubs and activities, enhancing their development.
• Effective safeguarding measures are in place to ensure pupil safety.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, leaders have not precisely identified the most important knowledge pupils need to learn.
• Teachers do not consistently use assessment effectively, impacting the adaptation of teaching.

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 Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.8% 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, 0.9% of pupils at Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School 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 Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School had 21.4 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, 15.5% of pupils at Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 9.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 8 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 Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School received £7,470 and spent £7,519 for each of its 445 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £347,000 (£782 per pupil).

Across all 12 schools of Osborne Co-Operative Academy Trust, income was £7,718 and spending £7,773 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 Stanford-Le-Hope · Thurrock local authority: places and applications

Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School is part of Osborne Co-Operative Academy Trust, which runs 12 schools. The nearest others:

• St Clere's School Stanford-Le-Hope
• Arthur Bugler Primary School Stanford-Le-Hope
• Horndon-On-the-Hill CofE Primary School Stanford-Le-Hope
• East Tilbury Primary School East Tilbury
• Little Thurrock Primary School Grays
• Thameside Primary School Grays
• Thames Park Secondary School Grays
• Warren Primary School Grays
• Bonnygate Primary School South Ockendon
• Brentwood County High School Brentwood

What is Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2023.

When was Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School was last inspected in January 2023.

How many pupils does Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School have?

Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School has 438 pupils on roll.

What age range does Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School cover?

Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School?

Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School is at Copland Road, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, SS17 0DF.