Primary
Great Leighs Primary School
Aragon Road, Great Leighs, Chelmsford, CM3 1RP
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 5 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 197 of 210 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
- Local authority
- Essex
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.6
- All staff (FTE)
- 19.1
- Pupils per adult
- 11.2
- Pupils
- 215
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected July 2023
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
52%
13 points below the Chelmsford average (65% across 45 schools)
105.0
1.7 below the Chelmsford average (106.7 across 45 schools)
36th of 45 by our score, among the primary schools in Chelmsford we can score - 56 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 103 |
| Average reading score | 105 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 52% |
| Working at a higher standard | 6% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 71% |
| 23/24 | 57% |
| 24/25 | 52% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 108.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| 24/25 | 105.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 107.0 |
| 23/24 | 105.0 |
| 24/25 | 103.0 |
Aragon Road, Great Leighs, Chelmsford, CM3 1RP
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Essex admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- James Garlick
- Address
- Aragon Road, Great Leighs, Chelmsford, CM3 1RP
- Telephone
- 01245361254
Other primary schools nearby
- White Court School6.2/10
- Notley Green Primary School5.2/10
- Little Waltham Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School7.0/10
- Terling Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School6.1/10
- Ford End Church of England Primary School6.3/10
- Great Waltham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School5.8/10