Quarry Hill Academy
Grays, RM17 5UT · Thurrock local authority
Grays’s School Grade B better than 61% of towns in England
What stands out about Quarry Hill Academy
- Its own letter, A+: Key Stage 2 results better than 99% of England’s primary schools
- 93% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 31 points above England’s schools
- Ofsted: Outstanding, November 2022 (shown, not graded)
- 59% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (57 of 96)
- Homes in its postcode sector (RM17 5) sold for a median £355,000; Grays’s is £360,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 93%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 99% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Thurrock avg 67%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 111 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 20 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Quarry Hill Academy?
59% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (66), 2020 (69), 2021 (82), 2022 (89), 2023 (64), 2024 (85), 2025 (69), 2026 (39). 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. Catalyst Academies Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Thurrock council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
59% got their first choice
Grays and Thurrock, side by side
2023–2025All 39 graded primaries in Thurrock. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Grays’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quarry Hill Academy | A+ | 19% | 93% |
| Dilkes Academy | A+ | 16% | 87% |
| Chadwell St Mary Primary School | A | 39% | 82% |
| Somers Heath Primary School | A | 28% | 81% |
| Kenningtons Primary Academy | A | 15% | 80% |
| Aveley Primary School | A | 23% | 80% |
| Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred | A | 11% | 77% |
| Harris Primary Academy Mayflower | A | 12% | 77% |
| Giffards Primary School | A | 23% | 76% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | A | 22% | 76% |
| Woodside Academy | A− | 18% | 75% |
| Shaw Primary Academy | A− | 30% | 75% |
| Tudor Court Primary School | B+ | 13% | 70% |
| Horndon-On-the-Hill CofE Primary School | B+ | 9% | 70% |
| The Gateway Primary Free School | B+ | 35% | 69% |
| Graham James Primary Academy | B+ | 16% | 69% |
| West Thurrock Academy | B+ | 25% | 69% |
| Deneholm Primary School | B+ | 17% | 68% |
| Purfleet Primary Academy | B | 33% | 66% |
| Holy Cross Catholic Primary School | B | 21% | 66% |
| St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School | B | 18% | 66% |
| Warren Primary School | B | 8% | 66% |
| Mossbourne Herd Lane Academy | B | 22% | 65% |
| Benyon Primary School | B− | 19% | 64% |
| Orsett Church of England Primary School | B− | 6% | 64% |
| Stifford Clays Primary School | B− | 23% | 63% |
| Lansdowne Primary Academy | B− | 49% | 62% |
| Belmont Castle Academy | B− | 19% | 62% |
| Tilbury Pioneer Academy | B− | 40% | 61% |
| Little Thurrock Primary School | C+ | 17% | 60% |
| Abbots Hall Primary School | C+ | 18% | 59% |
| Stanford-Le-Hope Primary School | C+ | 17% | 58% |
| Herringham Primary Academy | C | 43% | 56% |
| Arthur Bugler Primary School | C | 15% | 56% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | C | 24% | 56% |
| Bonnygate Primary School | C | 22% | 56% |
| East Tilbury Primary School | C− | 26% | 51% |
| Thameside Primary School | C− | 31% | 48% |
| Bulphan Church of England Academy | D− | 20% | 33% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025505 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
Quarry Hill Academy’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding, November 2022.
Living near Quarry Hill Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in RM17 5, the school’s postcode sector
Grays property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in RM17 5 sell for about the same as Grays’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
16 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Grays, RM17 5UT
Quarry Hill Academy: common questions
Is Quarry Hill Academy a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 99% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A+), with 93% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Outstanding, November 2022.
How hard is it to get into Quarry Hill Academy?
For September 2026, 96 families put Quarry Hill Academy first and 57 of them were offered a place; 58 places were offered in all.
What is Quarry Hill Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (November 2022).
How much do houses cost near Quarry Hill Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, RM17 5, sold for a median £355,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (390 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; Grays’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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