All-through
Cedar Hall School
Hart Road, Thundersley, Benfleet, SS7 3UQ
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Foundation special school
- Ages
- 4 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 189 of 156 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 9.1
- Local authority
- Essex
- SEN provision
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.7
- All staff (FTE)
- 43.5
- Pupils per adult
- 4.1
- Pupils
- 180
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 January 2025
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
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.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
November 2023
Ungraded inspection
Good
Read the report (opens in a new tab)
GCSE results
0%
0.7
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | 0% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
| Attainment 8 | 0.7 |
| EBacc average point score | 0.06 |
| Entered the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% |
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 time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 0% |
| 24/25 | 0% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0% |
| 22/23 | 0% |
| 23/24 | 4% |
| 24/25 | 0% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -1.70 |
| 22/23 | -1.57 |
| 23/24 | -1.42 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 4.3 |
| 22/23 | 1.0 |
| 23/24 | 5.1 |
| 24/25 | 0.7 |
Hart Road, Thundersley, Benfleet, SS7 3UQ
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
- Nicholas Maxwell
- Address
- Hart Road, Thundersley, Benfleet, SS7 3UQ
- Telephone
- 01268774723