Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery

About Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery

Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery sits in a local authority where the average Key Stage 2 attainment score is 62, but the school’s own data on this metric is not provided, so a direct comparison against the Essex primary average isn’t possible from the information available. What is clear is that the school is heavily oversubscribed: for 30 places in the 2025/26 academic year, it received 178 total applications, with 63 families putting it as their first preference. That’s an oversubscription ratio of nearly six to one, and only 29 first-preference offers were made. This level of demand suggests that local parents see something compelling here, even if the headline academic figures aren’t published in this dataset. The school is a state-funded mixed primary for ages 4 to 11, with a nursery on site, and it serves the Basildon area in Essex. With 206 pupils against a capacity of 420, it’s operating well below capacity, which is unusual given the application numbers — possibly reflecting a recent expansion or a specific year-group bottleneck.

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