Canewdon Church of England Primary School

Primary school in Rochford, Essex. Requires improvement (Feb 2020).

Latest graded inspection

Inspected 4 February 2020, report published 1 March 2020, under the inspection system used from 2019 to 2025.

This grade was given to Canewdon Endowed Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School (its Ofsted page), the school this one replaced when it became an academy. Canewdon Church of England Primary School hasn’t been inspected under its own name yet, so Ofsted’s page for it shows no grade.

Requires improvement overall. Not yet good. Schools with this grade were normally inspected again within 30 months. 11% of schools whose latest graded inspection was under this system got Requires improvement.

Grades for each area
Area	Grade
Quality of education	Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes	Good
Personal development	Good
Leadership and management	Requires improvement
Early years	Good
Safeguarding effective	Yes

These grades come from the system Ofsted replaced in November 2025. They stay on record until the school’s next inspection, when it gets a report card instead. More about the old grades.

Next inspection: around August 2022

The last inspection was in February 2020. Schools graded requires improvement were normally inspected again within 30 months. It’s now later than the usual gap, so an inspection could happen at any time.

An estimate, not an Ofsted date. Ofsted doesn’t publish its schedule and gives schools about a day’s notice. The law says the next inspection must be by August 2025 at the latest, and Ofsted can visit sooner if it has concerns.

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Report card, Jul 2026: 2 strong, 5 expected
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Good (Feb 2024)

Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.