Chalkwell Hall Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Leigh-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.833 miles
Published by Southend-on-Sea City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Chalkwell Hall Infant School is a primary school in Leigh-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 9 March 2023. Southend-on-Sea has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Chalkwell Hall Infant School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 1.833 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 1.833 miles away, the 4th longest of 16 Southend-on-Sea primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.77 miles).
- Reception 2026 drew 105 first-choice applications for 88 offers; 82 offers went to first-choice families, and 23 first-choice families (22%) were not offered a place.
- With 1.2 first choices per offer for Reception 2026, it was the 5th highest of 29 Southend-on-Sea primary schools, and its last distance was further than in 2025.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Southend-on-Sea schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- London Road, Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 3NL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Southend-on-Sea
- Pupils on roll
- 321 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 9 March 2023
Strengths
- “Chalkwell Hall Infants is a happy school that pupils enjoy attending.”
- “Pupils know and understand their ‘REACH’ values: ‘respect, enjoy, achieve, care, healthy’.”
- “They show these values in everything they do.”
To improve
- “There is, however, some variation in the quality of provision across classes.”
- “This means that, while pupils achieve well, they do not always develop as deep an understanding of the curriculum as leaders expect.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 105 first-preference applications, 88 offers in total, 82 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Southend-on-Sea.
- Chalkwell Hall Junior School 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Darlinghurst Academy 0.4 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Leigh North Street Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Blenheim Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- West Leigh Infant School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- West Leigh Junior School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Earls Hall Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published