United Kingdom / Regions / Chelmsford
Chelmsford
East of England, England · population ~180k · 73 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 63 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Chelmsford
73 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 (63 of 73 here), 91.4% 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. A further 1 school (1.4% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
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 73 schools.
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Moulsham High School | Secondary | 1,670 | Good | 23/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Beaulieu Park School | Secondary | 1,609 | Outstanding | 18/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Great Baddow High School | Secondary | 1,528 | Good· | 29/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Boswells School | Secondary | 1,409 | Good· | 22/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
William de Ferrers School | Secondary | 1,247 | Not graded | 24/09/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Chelmsford County High School for Girls | Secondary | 1,236 | Outstanding | 23/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Sandon School | Secondary | 1,231 | Requires Improvement | 19/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St John Payne Catholic School, Chelmsford | Secondary | 1,210 | Good· | 20/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Chelmer Valley High School | Secondary | 1,155 | Good | 13/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford | Secondary | 1,138 | Outstanding | 08/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Moulsham Junior School | Primary | 685 | Good· | 15/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hylands School | Secondary | 640 | Requires Improvement | 07/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Mildmay Primary School | Primary | 620 | Not graded | 13/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Westlands Community Primary School | Primary | 580 | Good | 27/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Barnes Farm Primary School | Primary | 551 | Good· | 12/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Newlands Spring Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 488 | Good | 11/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Bishops' Church of England and Roman Catholic Primary School | Primary | 439 | Good· | 19/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Tyrrells School | Primary | 421 | Good | 08/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Broomfield Primary School | Primary | 419 | Good· | 12/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Runwell Community Primary School | Primary | 419 | Good· | 10/12/2024 | 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.