The Basildon Lower Academy
Basildon, SS14 1UX · Essex local authority
Basildon’s School Grade C− better than 24% of towns in England
What stands out about The Basildon Lower Academy
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Room to spare: 892 pupils for 1,350 places
- 53% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 30%)
- Ofsted report card, January 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (86 of 86)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SS14 1) sold for a median £310,000; Basildon’s is £325,000
How hard is it to get a place at The Basildon Lower Academy?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The Basildon Academies sets the admissions rules. Apply through Essex council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025909 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
No letter for The Basildon Lower Academy
No published GCSE results: a new school with no Year 11 yet, or a cohort small enough for DfE to suppress. No results, no letter.
Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting January 2026. Requires significant improvement
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, March 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), October 2019.
Living near The Basildon Lower Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SS14 1, the school’s postcode sector
Basildon property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SS14 1 sell for a little under Basildon’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
19 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Basildon, SS14 1UX
The Basildon Lower Academy: common questions
How hard is it to get into The Basildon Lower Academy?
For September 2026, 86 families put The Basildon Lower Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 213 places were offered in all.
What is The Basildon Lower Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (January 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near The Basildon Lower Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, SS14 1, sold for a median £310,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (251 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Basildon’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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