Cherry Tree Academy

About Cherry Tree Academy

Cherry Tree Academy, a mixed state primary in Colchester, Essex, earned a Good rating from Ofsted in its most recent inspection in 2022, a clear step up from its previous Requires Improvement judgement in 2018. The school’s strongest academic metric is its Key Stage 2 combined reading, writing and maths expected standard score of 82%, which places it second out of 51 primary schools in the Colchester local authority area. That figure sits well above the Essex local authority average of 62% for the same measure, and it puts the school in the top 10% nationally. In the 2023/24 academic year, 88% of pupils met the expected standard in maths, 82% in reading and 82% in writing. At the higher standard, 35% of pupils achieved in maths, 41% in reading and 18% in writing, with a combined higher standard of 12%. Average scaled scores were 107 in maths and 106 in reading, both comfortably above the national benchmark of 100.

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