Primary
Messing Primary School
School Road, Messing, Colchester, CO5 9TH
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 89 of 84 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.1
- Local authority
- Essex
- Trust
- NEW HALL MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 5.1
- All staff (FTE)
- 9.2
- Pupils per adult
- 9.5
- Pupils
- 87
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 June 2025
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
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 inspections2
March 2024
Ungraded inspection
Good
Read the report (opens in a new tab)September 2018
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
SATs results
36%
28 points below the Colchester average (64% across 66 schools)
100.0
6.1 below the Colchester average (106.1 across 66 schools)
55th of 66 by our score, among the primary schools in Colchester we can score - 73 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 | 96 |
| Average reading score | 100 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 36% |
| Working at a higher standard | 18% |
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 | 78% |
| 23/24 | 36% |
| 24/25 | 36% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 112.0 |
| 23/24 | 106.0 |
| 24/25 | 100.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 103.0 |
| 23/24 | 100.0 |
| 24/25 | 96.0 |
School Road, Messing, Colchester, CO5 9TH
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
- Charlotte Brown
- Address
- School Road, Messing, Colchester, CO5 9TH
- Telephone
- 01621815415