Coppice Primary School, Chigwell
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 4 years agoOverall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Coppice Primary School offers a rich, creative curriculum with specialist teachers in subjects like PE, music, and science that bring learning to life. The school has excellent enrichment activities including tag rugby, girls' cricket, sewing, and an annual performance at the Royal Albert Hall mass choir. Leaders carefully support disadvantaged pupils through targeted funding and create a warm, inclusive environment for all children.
Key Strengths
- Strong leadership that has maintained good teaching despite high staff turnover
- Good quality teaching with well-organised, stimulating classrooms
- Excellent creative curriculum including art, music, PE with specialist teachers
- Effective use of pupil premium and sport premium funding to support disadvantaged pupils
- Good pupil behaviour, respect for others, and personal development
Areas for Improvement
- Most able pupils are not challenged enough to extend themselves consistently or rigorously
- Reading and mathematics outcomes remain below average
- Need to provide more challenge for the most able disadvantaged pupils across all subjects
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is effective with thorough procedures, quality recording, careful checks on all adults, and staff trained on radicalisation, extremism, female genital mutilation, and child sexual exploitation.
Extracurricular Activities
Tag rugby, girls' cricket, netball, swimming, football, sewing, mass choir performance at Royal Albert Hall, competitive regional sports
Coppice Primary School is a good school with strong leadership from a new headteacher who has created a 'can do culture' where staff and pupils achieve well. The quality of teaching is good, and pupils make good progress overall, though outcomes in reading and mathematics remain below average.
At a Glance
27.4%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has remained stable at around 85%. Maths has remained stable at around 78%. Writing has remained stable at around 75%.
Class Sizes
30.0
Avg class size
30.0
Infant (KS1)
30.0
KS2
14
Total classes
1 class with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
103%
Over capacity
432 pupils
420 capacity
12 places over capacity
Area Demand Pressure - Chigwell
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Chigwell
Admissions Demand - Redbridge
Places available
4,274
Applications
3,495
Got 1st preference
88.8%
Got preferred school
98.3%
Primary admissions across Redbridge (2025/26)
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
6.38615%
Overall absence
19.31217%
Persistent absence
378
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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