Purfleet Primary Academy, Purfleet-on-Thames

Ofsted's report card from its 10 March 2026 inspection grades Purfleet Primary Academy on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Leaders are focused on ensuring that pupils, including those with low starting points on arrival, typically achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "The school has a constant focus on attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The school has ensured that there is a well-thought-out curriculum in place that builds pupils' knowledge over time from Nursery through to Year 6."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children get off to a positive start in nursery and school life."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders successfully support the many diverse needs of pupils at this school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders know the school well and are aspirational for all pupils."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders are determined for pupils to engage in experiences that they may otherwise not have the chance to do."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders need to further strengthen the precision with which they adapt support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities who have significant additional needs"; "Leaders need to ensure that the teaching of foundation subjects is consistently high-quality across all year groups"; "Leaders should robustly check that pupils consistently secure knowledge in foundation subjects, including PHSE, to the depth and detail intended".

The school runs a breakfast club.

In 2025, 78% of Year 6 pupils at Purfleet Primary Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 75% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 81% and 81% in Thurrock and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 86% in reading and 77% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 67 families put Purfleet Primary Academy as their first choice and 86 named it as one of their preferences, for 68 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Purfleet Primary Academy are Aveley Primary School (1.5 miles, Good, 88% reading, 83% maths); Dartford Bridge Community Primary School (1.6 miles, Good, 81% reading, 89% maths); Kenningtons Primary Academy (1.7 miles, Good, 92% reading, 94% maths); and West Thurrock Academy (2 miles, Good, 90% reading, 90% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Purfleet Primary Academy.

Purfleet Primary Academy is one of 65 schools run by Reach2 Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

69 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Purfleet Primary Academy (as of April 2026): 91% would recommend the school, 88% say their child is happy there and 50% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (91%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (50%).

42.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (28%), Black (27%) and Asian (14%).

The nearest railway station is Purfleet Rail Station, about 490 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Tank Hill Road Primary School (southbound), 80 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Purfleet Primary Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 73 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, criminal damage and arson and vehicle crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Thurrock (163).

In 2024/25, Purfleet Primary Academy issued 9 suspensions, 1.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Purfleet Primary Academy are Harris Academy Riverside (0.5 miles), Park Academy (1.6 miles) and Leigh UTC Dartford (1.8 miles).