Leigh North Street Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Leigh-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.657 miles
Published by Southend-on-Sea City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Leigh North Street Primary School is a primary school in Leigh-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 March 2022. Southend-on-Sea has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Leigh North Street Primary 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 | 2.657 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2.657 miles from the school, the 2nd longest of 16 Southend-on-Sea primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- For Reception 2026, the last distance offered was further from the school than in 2025.
- In Reception 2026 there were 60 first-choice applications for 66 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%).
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
- North Street, Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 1QE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Southend-on-Sea
- Pupils on roll
- 612 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 March 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and hard-working at Leigh North Street Primary School.”
- “Relationships between pupils and adults are friendly and respectful.”
- “Leaders have made reading a high priority.”
To improve
- “However, in some other subjects, such as science and PE, assessment systems are still being developed.”
- “However, some parts of the early years curriculum are very new and are still being refined.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 May 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 57% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 60 first-preference applications, 66 offers in total, 60 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.
- West Leigh Infant School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- West Leigh Junior School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Darlinghurst Academy 0.6 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Chalkwell Hall Infant School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chalkwell Hall Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Blenheim Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Fairways Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published