Lambourne Primary School

About Lambourne Primary School

Lambourne Primary School in Epping Forest is a popular choice among local families, with 27 first-preference applications for just 30 places in the 2025/26 admissions round. The school made 26 offers to first-preference applicants, and overall received 52 applications for those 30 spots, giving an oversubscription ratio of 1.73. That level of demand suggests parents who get a place tend to be pleased with what the school offers, though the school does not publish a formal parent recommendation percentage. The school is a state primary for mixed genders aged 4 to 11, with a current roll of 214 pupils against a capacity of 218, so it is running very close to full. Headteacher Jordan Coombes leads a non-religious school in the Essex local authority area, and the school has a Forest School on site, which is a distinctive feature for families who value outdoor learning.

Academically, Lambourne sits in the bottom half of schools nationally when measured by the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. In the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, 59% of pupils hit that combined expected standard, which is just below the Essex local authority average of 62%. The school’s ranking within Epping Forest is 15th out of 30 primary schools, placing it exactly in the middle of its local peers. Looking at individual subjects, 81% of pupils met the expected standard in maths, 75% in reading, and 66% in writing. At the higher standard, 34% achieved higher in maths, 25% in reading, and 16% in writing, while only 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects. The school’s most recent Ofsted inspection in 2022 rated it Good overall, with Good for leadership and management, a notable improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating in 2012.

The school offers a solid range of facilities including a sports hall, ICT suite, library, music rooms, playing fields, and a chapel, plus the Forest School provision. Sports on offer include football, cricket, rounders, dance and gymnastics, and there are clubs such as Eco Club, Gardening, Book Club and Film Club. For families with children who have additional needs, the school has SEND provisions covering moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health, speech language and communication, and autistic spectrum disorder. The nearest outstanding-rated primary school is Hereward Primary School, 2.6 km away. Lambourne suits families who want a well-subscribed local school with a broad extracurricular offer and a clear focus on outdoor learning, but who are comfortable with results that sit around the local average rather than at the top of the rankings.

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