United Kingdom / Regions / Epping Forest
Epping Forest
East of England, England · population ~132k · 45 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 40 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Epping Forest
45 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 (40 of 45 here), 99.7% 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 (2.2% 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 45 schools.
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West Hatch High School | Secondary | 1,564 | Good· | 29/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Roding Valley High School | Secondary | 1,437 | Good | 27/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Davenant Foundation School | Secondary | 1,239 | Good | 28/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Debden Park High School | Secondary | 1,050 | Outstanding· | 25/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Epping St Johns Church of England School | Secondary | 1,031 | Good | 21/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
King Harold Business & Enterprise Academy | Secondary | 797 | Good· | 14/07/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Staples Road Primary School | Primary | 615 | Good· | 10/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Waltham Holy Cross Primary Academy | Primary | 594 | Good | 26/03/2024 | Ofsted |
The Ongar Academy | Secondary | 511 | Good· | 01/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Thomas Willingale Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 487 | Good· | 26/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hereward Primary School | Primary | 449 | Outstanding | 04/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Leverton Primary School | Primary | 438 | Not graded | 16/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
White Bridge Primary School | Primary | 429 | Good | 08/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Buckhurst Hill | Primary | 414 | Good· | 23/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Epping Primary School | Primary | 411 | Good | 21/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Andrew's CofE Primary School | Primary | 384 | Good· | 13/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Buckhurst Hill Community Primary School | Primary | 376 | Not graded | 11/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ivy Chimneys Primary School | Primary | 331 | Good· | 29/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Hillhouse CofE Primary School | Primary | 331 | Good· | 16/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Theydon Bois Primary School | Primary | 318 | Good· | 05/10/2022 | 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.