Academy converter · Primary
Witham · CM8 3PQ · Essex
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
1.5 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 144955
Silver End Academy
Academy sponsor led · Witham · CM8 3RZ
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 4–11
Pupils
344
Local authority
Essex
Age range
Ages 4–11
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 4–11, in Witham, Essex, 344 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 22.1%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 144955
Location
- Address
- School Road, Silver End
- Postcode
- CM8 3RZ
- Town
- Witham
- County
- Essex
- Local authority
- Essex
- District
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: 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
- 344
- Boys / girls
- 171 / 173
- School capacity
- 440
- Capacity fill
- 344 / 440 (78%)
- Free school meals
- 22.1%
- FSM pupils
- 76
- 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 Sarah Meares
- Telephone
- 01376583353
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
Expected standard
Inspection date
2026-05-19
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
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)
- 53%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 3%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 103.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
5.9%
Persistent absence
17.4%
Unauthorised
1.6%
- Authorised absence
- 4.3%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.3%
- Enrolments in measure
- 311
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 7.3% · Persistent 18.1%
- 2021/22
- Overall 6.9% · Persistent 18.8%