Chase High School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Southend-on-Sea City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Chase High School is a secondary school in Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Southend-on-Sea has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Chase High 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 113 first-choice applications for 182 offers; 112 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- Of the Year 7 offers made in 2026, 70 went to families who ranked the school second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 32% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with Attainment 8 at 39.2 (England 46).
- In 2024/25, the A level average grade was D (England B-), and progress from GCSE to A level was well below average.
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
- Prittlewell Chase, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 0RT
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Southend-on-Sea
- Pupils on roll
- 1,293 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 37.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 27 January 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils at Chase High School typically demonstrate the school’s values: ambition, resilience and kindness.”
- “Pupils understand the clear expectations of how they should behave.”
- “Most pupils successfully strive to meet them.”
To improve
- “However, teaching, as leaders are aware, is not consistently effective.”
- “Pupils read competently, but some do not yet write well enough.”
- “As a result, although leaders’ actions have improved the curriculum and teaching, pupils frequently do not achieve highly enough in national tests and examinations in key stages 4 and 5.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 March 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 32% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 39.2 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | D | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 113 first-preference applications, 182 offers in total, 112 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Southend-on-Sea.
- Southend High School for Boys 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Thomas More High School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westcliff High School for Boys Academy 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Westcliff High School for Girls 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Bernard's High School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Eastwood Academy 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cecil Jones Academy 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Belfairs Academy 2.1 mi Requires improvement Last distance published