Thaxted Primary School
Foundation school · Dunmow · CM6 2LW
Ages 5–11 · 228 pupils · Essex
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
70%
Overall absence
6.1%
Admissions demand
0.89 · Often has places
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-05-08
- 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)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 106.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 4.7%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.3%
- Enrolments in measure
- 227
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
0.89 · Often has places
1st preferences
17
Places offered
19
1st-preference offers
17
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 43
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 19
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
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).
228 pupils · 266 places
- Pupils on roll
- 228
- Boys / girls
- 120 / 108
- School capacity
- 266
- Capacity fill
- 228 / 266 (86%)
- Free school meals
- 11.4%
- FSM pupils
- 26
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Foundation school
Age range
Ages 5–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Supported by a trust
- Headteacher
- Mrs Caroline Crompton
Location
- Address
- Bardfield Road, Thaxted
- Postcode
- CM6 2LW
- Town
- Dunmow
- County
- Essex
- Local authority
- Essex
- District
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: Further from 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 foundation school (primary), Ages 5–11, in Dunmow, Essex, 228 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 11.4%.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Caroline Crompton
- Telephone
- 01371830240