Warren Primary School
General Information
- Address: Gilbert Road, Chafford Hundred, Grays, RM16 6NB – View on map
- Phone: 01375482288
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Co Headteacher Vashti Green and Charlie Evans
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 56 families put it first for 60 places – 9 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 11 · 2024 12 · 2025 9 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 33
- % eligible for free school meals: 7.7%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Thurrock average)
- English as an additional language: 22% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 11.6% a year (Thurrock 17.4%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 43% moved to another school, 57% 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.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Thurrock: 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: 0 (0.0 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 Thurrock, 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: 4.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 10.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Hearing impairment 18 places · 15 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 10.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 7.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 15 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Hearing impairment: 12 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 7 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 69% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 8% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Thurrock average (69%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 66% against an expected 70%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 66%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 84% · Writing 74% · Maths 82% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 85%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 107
- Based on: 61 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 19th of 39 junior and primary schools in the area
- =19Belmont Castle Academy69%
- =19Orsett Church of England Primary School69%
- =19Warren Primary School69%
- =22Herringham Primary Academy68%
- =22Tilbury Pioneer Academy68%
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29th of 32 primary schools in Thurrock for Ofsted rating
- #27Tilbury Pioneer AcademyGood
- #28Tudor Court Primary SchoolGood
- #29Warren Primary SchoolGood
- #30West Thurrock AcademyGood
- #31Woodside AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,711 (2024-25)
5th of 39 primary schools in Thurrock for spending per pupil
- #3Holy Cross Catholic Primary School£7,858
- #4St Mary's Catholic Primary School£7,822
- #5Warren Primary School£7,711
- #6Lansdowne Primary Academy£7,300
- #7Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School£7,066
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