The Ramsey Academy, Halstead

Ofsted

–No overall grade (2024) — Inspected 2024–2025 — no overall grade under the interim framework

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 24 September 2024, published 23 October 2024. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Usually has places available — 0.93 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• ▲Hedingham School and Sixth Form 5.8 km · Good — confirmed 2023 · previous system
• ▲Honywood School 8.3 km · Good (2022) · previous system
• ▲Alec Hunter Academy 9.6 km · Good — confirmed 2022 · previous system
• !Tabor Academy 10 km · Requires improvement (2023) · previous system
• ▲Notley High School and Braintree Sixth Form 11.2 km · Most areas: Expected standard (2026)
• –Thomas Gainsborough School 11.4 km · No overall grade (2024)

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.