Guest, Sign inJoin

Limebrook Primary School and Nursery

PrimaryAges 2–11Free school

Maldon, CM9 6NE · Essex local authority

Maldon’s School Grade C− better than 24% of towns in England

Getting in
25/28
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
137 pupils
33% of its 420 places
Free school meals
12%
12 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Limebrook Primary School and Nursery

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 137 pupils for 420 places
  • 12% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • 89% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (25 of 28)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CM9 6) sold for a median £415,000; Maldon’s is £360,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Limebrook Primary School and Nursery?

89% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

28
families put it first for September 2026
30
places offered
89%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2025 (9), 2026 (3). 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. Lion Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Essex council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Maldon, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.40 per place
70% got their first choice
1.13 per place
79% got their first choice
1.07 per place
84% got their first choice
Limebrook Primary School and Nursery
0.93 per place
89% got their first choice
0.81 per place
100% got their first choice
0.80 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

113 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.

SEN support
5.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
0%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
13.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 56%Boys 44%
Its letter

No letter for Limebrook Primary School and Nursery

No published results for this school: a new school, 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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Not inspected yet (a new school, or one that changed status recently).

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Limebrook Primary School and Nursery

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in CM9 6, the school’s postcode sector

Maldon property prices →
£415,000
median sale, 698 sales in 36 months · Maldon £360,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K2010201520202025CM9 6Maldon
CM9 6Maldon

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£531K
Semi-detached
£380K
Terraced
£300K
Flat
£200K
CM9 6Maldon

Homes in CM9 6 sell for well over Maldon’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

5 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB+C−B+CDLimebrook Primary School an…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Maldon, CM9 6NE

Limebrook Primary School and Nursery: common questions

How hard is it to get into Limebrook Primary School and Nursery?

For September 2026, 28 families put Limebrook Primary School and Nursery first and 25 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

How much do houses cost near Limebrook Primary School and Nursery?

Homes in its postcode sector, CM9 6, sold for a median £415,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (698 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; Maldon’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.