United Kingdom / Regions / Colchester
Colchester
East of England, England · population ~197k · 80 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 64 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Colchester
80 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 (64 of 80 here), 93.5% 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 80 schools.
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Philip Morant School and College | Secondary | 1,828 | Good | 13/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Gilberd School | Secondary | 1,574 | Not graded | 05/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Stanway School | Secondary | 1,383 | Good· | 07/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Colchester County High School for Girls | Secondary | 1,210 | Outstanding | 28/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Colchester Royal Grammar School | Secondary | 1,059 | Inadequate | 11/05/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Thurstable School | Secondary | 1,031 | Good· | 20/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Helena School | Secondary | 987 | Good | 30/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Thomas Lord Audley School | Secondary | 921 | Not graded | 26/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Colchester Academy | Secondary | 899 | Good | 08/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Benedict's Catholic College | Secondary | 891 | Good· | 19/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Paxman Academy | Secondary | 886 | Good | 06/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St. George's School | Primary | 626 | Good | 28/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St John's Green Primary School | Primary | 621 | Good· | 26/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Trinity School | Secondary | 597 | Not graded | 07/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Stanway Fiveways Primary School | Primary | 513 | Good | 13/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St James the Great Church of England Primary School | Primary | 456 | Good | 15/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
North Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 455 | Good· | 29/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Unity Primary Academy | Primary | 449 | Not graded | 10/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Highwoods Community Primary School | Primary | 447 | Good· | 14/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Brinkley Grove Primary School | Primary | 426 | Not graded | 09/10/2024 | 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.