Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Southend-on-Sea
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Southend-on-Sea City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery is a primary school in Southend-on-Sea for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 8 May 2024. Southend-on-Sea has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, with 45 first-choice applications for 60 offers (0.8 per offer), the 5th lowest of 29 Southend-on-Sea primary schools.
- There are 16.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Southend-on-Sea.
- In 2024/25, 52% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 52% was the 2nd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Southend-on-Sea that have results.
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
- Lancaster Gardens, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 2NS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Southend-on-Sea
- Pupils on roll
- 431 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are polite and responsible.”
- “Their views about school life are listened to.”
- “They contribute well to the school’s happy, calm and warm ethos.”
To improve
- “In some curriculum subjects, assessment is not yet well developed and the school does not check precisely what pupils have learned.”
- “Consequently, pupils develop gaps in their learning and do not make the progress they are capable of in these areas of the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 June 2024 (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) | 52% | 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: 45 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 45 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.
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Bournemouth Park Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's, Prittlewell, CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Barons Court Primary School and Nursery 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Helen's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Milton Hall Primary School and Nursery 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Hamstel Infant School and Nursery 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hamstel Junior School 0.9 mi Good