Leigh Beck Junior School, Canvey Island

Ofsted's report card from its 28 April 2026 inspection grades Leigh Beck Junior School on 6 areas: 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils are well prepared for their next stages of education."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have clear attendance processes in place."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed an ambitious curriculum that sets out clearly what pupils need to learn across subjects."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have established clear processes to identify the specific needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "School, and trust leaders know the school well."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders place a high priority on the wider development of pupils."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders need to ensure staff have a secure understanding of how to support pupils who need to improve their handwriting, spelling, punctuation and grammar"; "Leaders should ensure highly effective teaching is embedded across subjects and year groups".

In 2025, 78% of Year 6 pupils at Leigh Beck Junior School reached the expected standard in reading and 90% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 78% and 76% in Essex and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 91% in reading and 83% in maths in 2024.

Across Essex, 90% of families were offered their first-choice primary school for 2026 entry, and 98% were offered one of the schools they named.

In 2026, families in Essex lodged 375 appeals against primary school offers; 241 reached a hearing and 31 succeeded (12.9% of those heard).

The nearest other state primary schools to Leigh Beck Junior School are Leigh Beck Infant School and Nursery Academy (under 0.1 miles, Good); Lubbins Park Primary Academy (0.7 miles, Good, 86% reading, 86% maths); St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and Nursery (1.1 miles, Good, 81% reading, 78% maths); and William Read Primary Academy (1.5 miles, 63% reading, 69% maths).

Leigh Beck Junior School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 3 schools.

Leigh Beck Junior School is one of 11 schools run by Lion Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 78% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

2.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 49 pupils (15.4%) received SEN support and 6 (1.9%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

Leigh Beck Junior School had 13 teachers in 2026, one for every 25 pupils: fewer teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Leigh-on-Sea Rail Station, about 2 miles away in a straight line.

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Transport Museum (outside), 140 metres away.

In 2024/25, Leigh Beck Junior School issued 5 suspensions, 1.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.