The Mawney Foundation School
General Information
- Address: Mawney Road, Romford, RM7 7HR – View on map
- Phone: 01708741612
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Mandy Lawrence
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Furthest place offered from: Not oversubscribed on distance that year From the council's own Sept 2025 admissions data - not a fixed catchment boundary, and no guarantee for future years, since it shifts with demand each year.
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 59 families put it first for 70 places – 8 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 131
- % eligible for free school meals: 20.8%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Havering average)
- English as an additional language: 48% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 12.3% a year (Havering 14.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 35% moved to another school, 65% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Latest figures from the school
Data received 2025/26
- Teaching staff (headcount): 3
- Joined in the last 12 months: 1 (33% of staff)
- Left in the previous 12 months: 1 (33% of staff)
Behaviour
Higher incident record 2025/26
Reading the numbers: higher figures below often mean a school records thoroughly and takes concerns seriously, rather than more incidents happening. A school reporting unusually low figures sometimes has a reporting gap rather than a problem-free intake. If a figure stands out, it's worth asking the school how it records.
- Data year: 2025/26
- Bullying incidents: 4
- Physical aggression / violence incidents: 11
- Racist incidents: 12
- Suspensions (fixed-term exclusions): 11
- Permanent exclusions: 0
Figures may show "<5" for some schools.
19th of 21 primary schools in Havering for behaviour
- #17Rainham Village Primary School32%
- #18Squirrels Heath Primary School32%
- #19The Mawney Foundation School32%
- #20Parsonage Farm Primary School28%
- #21The James Oglethorpe Primary School8%
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Across Havering: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 3 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Havering, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 5.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 7.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 14 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 12 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 9 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 15 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
This score reflects how openly the school responded to our Freedom of Information request. Schools that withhold information are rated lower — even the act of hiding data tells parents something about a school’s openness.
All 1 other scored primary schools in Havering scored higher on transparency this year.
- Response
- Full response (+60)
- Timeliness
- Response date not recorded (+10)
- Optional data
- No optional data (+0)
Exemplary (80–100) · Cooperative (60–79) · Reluctant (40–59) · Obstructive (20–39) · Opaque (0–19)
Educational Attainment
Good 2020 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 67% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Havering average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 65% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 65%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 75% · Writing 71% · Maths 75% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 74%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 106
- Based on: 84 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
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SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 25th of 49 junior and primary schools in the area
- =25Engayne Primary School67%
- =25The James Oglethorpe Primary School67%
- =25The Mawney Foundation School67%
- =28Clockhouse Primary School66%
- =28Towers Junior School66%
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29th of 29 primary schools in Havering for Ofsted rating
- #27Suttons Primary SchoolGood
- #28The James Oglethorpe Primary SchoolGood
- #29The Mawney Foundation SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,148 (2024-25)
18th of 39 primary schools in Havering for spending per pupil
- #16La Salette Catholic Primary School£7,329
- #17Suttons Primary School£7,234
- #18The Mawney Foundation School£7,148
- #19Brady Primary School£7,116
- #20St Peter's Catholic Primary School£7,088
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Environment
Data received 2025/26
Accessibility
- Step-free for pupils, staff and visitors: No
- Overall accessibility: Partially
- Lifts for pupil use: Yes
- Accessible toilets: Yes
- Changing Places facility: Yes
- Sensory room: Yes
Climate
- Classrooms with air conditioning: 0%
- Mechanical ventilation: No
- Air cooling units: Yes - all classrooms
- Shaded outdoor areas: Some
- Heatwave procedures: Yes - written procedure
Technology
- Pupil devices (approx.): 240
- Pupils per device: 3:1
- Digital display in every classroom: Yes
- Interactive whiteboards: Yes - all classrooms
- 1:1 pupil device programme: No
- Coding / robotics equipment: Yes
- Assistive technology for SEND pupils: Yes
- Other technology: Thank you for your help. This information will be published on theschoolcompanion.org to help parents compare schools.