The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Grove Primary School

URN 102835 · Primary · Community school · Redbridge

Chadwell Heath Lane, Romford, RM6 4XS

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 101 families named Grove Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 90 offers.

That is 1.12 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 85% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 85% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.24 in 2021–2022 and 1.11 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 101 238 90 1.12
2024 97 252 88 1.10
2023 111 278 87 1.28
2022 115 268 89 1.29
2021 106 271 89 1.19
2020 134 330 90 1.49
2019 74 227 89 0.83
2018 73 219 90 0.81
2017 101 278 89 1.13
2016 85 283 90 0.94
2015 92 281 89 1.03
2014 88 265 90 0.98

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 4 June 2025

Standards maintained

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 79.0% 12.0% 108.0 108.0
2023/24 73.0% 8.0% 105.0 106.0
2022/23 70.0% 13.0% 107.0 107.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 28.9 23.8 2.6 2.5 17.6%
2023/24 29.3 25.3 1.0 3.0 13.7%
2022/23 27.5 23.2 1.9 2.4 15.6%
2021/22 31.7 27.7 0.0 4.0 12.6%
2020/21 29.8 28.6 0.0 1.2 4.0%
2019/20 29.8 29.8 0.0 0.0 0.0%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Grove Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.