United Kingdom / Regions / Braintree
Braintree
East of England, England · population ~153k · 63 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 55 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Braintree
63 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (55 of 63 here), 83.4% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 63 schools.
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Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form | Secondary | 1,255 | Requires Improvement | 11/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lift New Rickstones | Secondary | 1,204 | Good· | 09/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hedingham School and Sixth Form | Secondary | 1,155 | Good· | 03/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Alec Hunter Academy | Secondary | 1,067 | Good· | 09/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Tabor Academy | Secondary | 963 | Requires Improvement | 26/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lift Maltings | Secondary | 841 | Requires Improvement | 19/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Honywood School | Secondary | 821 | Good | 06/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Ramsey Academy, Halstead | Secondary | 744 | Not graded | 24/09/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
White Court School | Primary | 567 | Good | 08/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Lyons Hall School | Primary | 558 | Good | 18/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
John Bunyan Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 545 | Good· | 28/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Kelvedon St Mary's Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | 463 | Good | 05/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
John Ray Junior School | Primary | 436 | Good | 05/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Chipping Hill Primary School | Primary | 419 | Not graded | 05/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Notley Green Primary School | Primary | 410 | Not graded | 20/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Earls Colne Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 407 | Good· | 11/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Templars Academy | Primary | 406 | Good· | 22/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | 405 | Outstanding· | 29/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Silver End Academy | Primary | 370 | Good | 08/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Richard de Clare Community Academy | Primary | 364 | Good | 15/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.