The School Record

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

Chase High School

URN 141741 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Southend-on-Sea

Prittlewell Chase, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 0RT

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 Year 7, 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, 181 families named Chase High School as their first preference, and the school made 219 offers.

That is 0.83 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 29% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 29% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.68 in 2021–2022 and 0.87 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 10 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 181 529 219 0.83
2024 200 587 221 0.90
2023 179 568 242 0.74
2022 153 398 195 0.78
2021 130 380 224 0.58
2020 88 286 224 0.39
2019 62 234 161 0.39
2018 102 303 195 0.52
2017 92 259 194 0.47
2016 107 320 194 0.55

“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 inspections from 2024 to 202620242026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 27 January 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Needs attention

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Sixth form / post-16: Needs attention

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 12 November 2024

Category of concern: Special measures

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Inadequate

Behaviour and attitudes: Inadequate

Personal development: Inadequate

Leadership and management: Inadequate

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: Inadequate

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 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 39.20 - 50.7% 17.6%
2023/24 32.50 -0.93
likely between -1.15 and -0.70		 41.7% 7.4%
2022/23 35.10 -0.64
likely between -0.87 and -0.42		 48.2% 15.1%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

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 84.8 68.8 2.0 14.1 19.0%
2023/24 63.0 47.4 8.0 7.6 24.8%
2022/23 71.8 50.8 10.0 11.0 29.2%
2021/22 76.9 64.6 6.4 5.9 16.0%
2020/21 74.2 66.9 1.8 5.5 9.8%
2019/20 71.4 63.8 4.6 3.0 10.6%

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 secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Chase High 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.