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Primary school in Bishop's Stortford, Essex

Farnham Church of England Primary School

Farnham, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 1HR

Ofsted Good · 2024 Church of England
School website 01279771339
Ofsted Good June 2024
Pupils 9 13% full
Local deprivation 8/10 less deprived

Ofsted

Goodas at 27 June 2024

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 27 June 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

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Current published outcome
Good
Last overall grade in this dataset
Good
Days since inspection
827 days
Framework era
Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

key stage 2 results 2024/25

Not published for this URN in the current phase-appropriate school performance release.

Evidence found
No publishable key stage 2 headline attainment value for this exact URN.
Source coverage
DfE school-level 2024/25 performance files, joined by URN. Suppressed, not applicable and not published cells remain distinct from zero.
What this means
School Facts has no official phase-compatible attainment figure to display for this establishment and year.
What this does not mean
The school had no pupils, achieved 0%, performed poorly, or lacks results outside this release.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
9
Places
70
How full
13% full — 9 of 70 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
1 / 8
Overall absence
14%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent
47%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
29%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
18%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
21%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
0

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
0

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
0
Busiest road nearby
U

170 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
0

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Stansted Mountfitchet Rail Station

3.7 km away — railway station

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

8/10 Deprivation decile

Among the less deprived half of England.

9/10 Child poverty decile

Among the least deprived fifth of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£560,000

postcode sector CM23 1 · 105 sales

Typical range
£460,625 to £687,500

middle half of sales

Detached
£630,000
Semi-detached
£520,000
Terraced
£435,000
Flat
£112,500

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
42%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
12%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
19%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
11%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
55%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
73%

England 62.7%

Social housing
11%

England 17%

Privately rented
15%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
42%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
39%

England 22.5%

No car
5%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Uttlesford 005G and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Primary
Ages
Ages 4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Sixth form
No
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Tracey Bratley
Register status
Open
Local authority
Essex
Ward
Stort Valley
Constituency
North West Essex
URN
115189

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Reception

1.10 2014/15: 0.83 first choices per place2015/16: 0.75 first choices per place2016/17: 0.29 first choices per place2017/18: 1.00 first choices per place2018/19: 0.80 first choices per place2019/20: 1.00 first choices per place2020/21: 1.00 first choices per place2021/22: 0.67 first choices per place2022/23: 0.71 first choices per place2023/24: 0.67 first choices per place2024/25: 1.00 first choices per place2025/26: 1.00 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242025
All 12 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 6 5 0.83 100%
2015/16 8 6 0.75 100%
2016/17 7 2 0.29 100%
2017/18 9 9 1.00 100%
2018/19 5 4 0.80 100%
2019/20 9 9 1.00 100%
2020/21 5 5 1.00 100%
2021/22 3 2 0.67 100%
2022/23 7 5 0.71 100%
2023/24 3 2 0.67 100%
2024/25 2 2 1.00 100%
2025/26 2 2 1.00 100%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest primary schools

SchoolOfstedExpected standardDistanceCompare
Avanti Meadows Primary SchoolFree schools Good 2024 67% 1.2 mi
Manuden Primary SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 70% 1.3 mi
Avanti Brook Primary SchoolFree schools No overall grade — 1.6 mi
Northgate Primary SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 79% 1.9 mi
Bentfield Primary School and NurseryCommunity school Good 2024 60% 2.1 mi
Magna Carta Primary AcademyFree schools No overall grade 63% 2.2 mi
St Mary's CofE Foundation Primary SchoolFoundation school Good 2022 67% 2.3 mi
Birchanger Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Report card 2026 63% 2.3 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

SchoolAreaOfstedExpected standardCompare
Winster CofE Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Matlock Good 2022 50%
Bedfield Church of England Primary SchoolAcademy converter Woodbridge No overall grade 25%
Langdale CofE SchoolVoluntary aided school Ambleside Report card 2026 —
Newcastle CofE Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Craven Arms Good 2023 —
Barton Church of England Primary SchoolAcademy converter Richmond Good 2022 —
Elmsett Church of England Primary SchoolAcademy converter Ipswich No overall grade 55%
Hyde Church of England Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Fordingbridge Good 2023 13%
Chaddleworth St Andrew's C.E. Primary SchoolVoluntary controlled school Newbury Report card 2026 —
Barley (VA) Church of England First SchoolVoluntary aided school Royston Good 2023 —
Weeton St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Preston No overall grade 14%
Oak Hill Church of England Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Tewkesbury Requires improvement 2022 —
Charmouth Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Bridport Requires improvement 2022 —

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 115189; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 27 June 2024
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

These sources are published for reuse under the Open Government Licence v3.0, including the Crown database-right notice that accompanies Price Paid Data. Definitions and source notes. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.

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