United Kingdom / Regions / Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea
East of England, England · population ~183k · 52 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 41 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Southend-on-Sea
52 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 (41 of 52 here), 88.7% 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.
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 52 schools.
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Shoeburyness High School | Secondary | 1,747 | Good | 04/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Belfairs Academy | Secondary | 1,606 | Requires Improvement | 14/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Westcliff High School for Girls | Secondary | 1,342 | Outstanding | 06/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Southend High School for Boys | Secondary | 1,325 | Outstanding | 12/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Chase High School | Secondary | 1,321 | Not graded | 12/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Westcliff High School for Boys Academy | Secondary | 1,292 | Outstanding | 21/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Southend High School for Girls | Secondary | 1,253 | Outstanding | 02/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Thomas More High School | Secondary | 1,206 | Good· | 07/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Eastwood Academy | Secondary | 1,143 | Not graded | 11/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Bernard's High School | Secondary | 1,021 | Good· | 22/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Cecil Jones Academy | Secondary | 1,016 | Good | 20/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Greenways Primary School | Primary | 888 | Not graded | 11/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Southchurch High School | Secondary | 805 | Requires Improvement | 15/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Milton Hall Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 704 | Good | 16/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Temple Sutton Primary School | Primary | 659 | Good | 10/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Blenheim Primary School | Primary | 651 | Outstanding | 02/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Mary's, Prittlewell, CofE Primary School | Primary | 647 | Not graded | 23/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Earls Hall Primary School | Primary | 635 | Good· | 06/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Leigh North Street Primary School | Primary | 622 | Good | 23/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Hamstel Junior School | Primary | 586 | Good | 19/03/2024 | 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.