Voluntary controlled school · Primary
Colchester · CO7 6BZ · Essex
Ages 4–11
- KS264%
- Absence4.4%
- FSM8.4%
- Demand1.03
1.6 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: GoodURN 124675
Stratford St Mary Primary School
Community school · Nr Colchester · CO7 6YG
Ages 4–11 · 88 pupils · Suffolk
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
92%
Overall absence
5.7%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2023-11-14
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)92%
Higher standard (RWM)8%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 110.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 109.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 108.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence5.7%
Persistent absence (10%+)8.3%
Unauthorised1.0%
- Authorised absence
- 4.6%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 2.8%
- Enrolments in measure
- 72
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
15
Places offered
15
1st-preference offers
14
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 34
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 15
- Applications from outside LA
- 13
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 4
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill84%
88 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 88
- Boys / girls
- 43 / 45
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 88 / 105 (84%)
- Free school meals
- 6.8%
- FSM pupils
- 6
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Headteacher
- Mrs Karen Bilner
Location
- Address
- Stratford St Mary
- Postcode
- CO7 6YG
- Town
- Nr Colchester
- County
- Suffolk
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- District
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Nr Colchester, Suffolk, 88 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 6.8%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Voluntary controlled school · Primary
Nr Colchester · CO7 6SW · Suffolk
Ages 4–11
- KS269%
- Absence4.2%
- FSM10.8%
- Demand1.31
1.6 miles away
Langham Primary Academy
Ofsted: GoodAcademy converter · Primary
Colchester · CO4 5PB · Essex
Ages 4–11
- FSM9.9%
1.9 miles away
Boxted St Peter's Church of England School
Ofsted: GoodVoluntary controlled school · Primary
Colchester · CO4 5YN · Essex
Ages 4–11
- KS267%
- Absence5.1%
- FSM6.8%
- Demand1.13
2.7 miles away
New to reading school data? See Ofsted ratings explained and how to compare schools.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Karen Bilner
- Telephone
- 01206323236