Community school · Primary
Colchester · CO2 9AZ · Essex
Ages 2–7
Status: Open
0.0 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 142001
Kings Ford Academy
Academy sponsor led · Colchester · CO2 9AZ
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 7–11
Pupils
152
Local authority
Essex
Age range
Ages 7–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (primary), Ages 7–11, in Colchester, Essex, 152 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 29.6%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 7–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 142001
Location
- Address
- Gloucester Avenue, Shrub End
- Postcode
- CO2 9AZ
- Town
- Colchester
- County
- Essex
- Local authority
- Essex
- District
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 152
- Boys / girls
- 92 / 60
- School capacity
- 240
- Capacity fill
- 152 / 240 (63%)
- Free school meals
- 29.6%
- FSM pupils
- 45
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: INSPIRES MAT
- Academy trust
- INSPIRES MAT
- Sponsor
- Connected Learning
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Karen Jackson
- Telephone
- 01206573807
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-06-10
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 44%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 9%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 102.0