Temple Sutton Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · 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 🔒
Temple Sutton Primary School is a primary school in Southend-on-Sea for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 January 2023. Southend-on-Sea has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Temple Sutton 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 | 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
- In 2024/25, 56% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 12% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every Reception applicant in 2026 was offered a place, as at 12 of the 28 other Southend-on-Sea primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 68 first-choice applications for 81 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 13 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 37% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Southend-on-Sea.
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
- Eastern Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 4BA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Southend-on-Sea
- Pupils on roll
- 619 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 37% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Temple Sutton are happy and feel safe in school.”
- “They learn in a warm, caring and calm environment.”
- “They establish highly respectful relationships with each other.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, leaders’ approach is less thorough.”
- “In these subjects, teachers do not have enough information to teach and assess important knowledge in the right order.”
- “Some lessons can contain too much information or not enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 February 2023 (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) | 56% | 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: 68 first-preference applications, 81 offers in total, 68 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.
- Bournemouth Park Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hamstel Infant School and Nursery 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hamstel Junior School 0.6 mi Good
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Porters Grange Primary School and Nursery 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's, Prittlewell, CofE Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Greenways Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Helen's Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published