Living in Basildon with children
Basildon, Essex. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 115,935 people in 46,983 households; 33.8% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
34 schools: 29 state primary, 5 state secondaryBasildon on the schools map →Every school in Basildon, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (29)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Anne Line Catholic Junior School | Outstanding | Top 3% (11/398) in Essex | 2.137 miles (2025) |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Basildon | Ofsted report card | Top 5% (18/398) in Essex | — |
| Lee Chapel Primary School | Outstanding | Top 6% (23/398) in Essex | 0.593 miles (2025) |
| Briscoe Primary School & Nursery | School remains Good | Top 12% (46/398) in Essex | — |
| Noak Bridge Primary School | School remains Good | Top 12% (47/398) in Essex | 0.149 miles (2025) |
| Ryedene Primary and Nursery School | Improved significantly | Top 21% (81/398) in Essex | — |
| The Willows Primary School | Standards maintained | Top 22% (86/398) in Essex | — |
| Greensted Primary School & Nursery | Good | Top 32% (127/398) in Essex | 0.388 miles (2025) |
| Fairhouse Community Primary School | School remains Good | Top 42% (164/398) in Essex | — |
| Bardfield Academy | Requires improvement | Top 43% (169/398) in Essex | — |
| Kingswood Primary School and Nursery | School remains Good | Top 45% (178/398) in Essex | 0.499 miles (2025) |
| Northlands Primary School and Nursery | Good | (219/398) in Essex | 1.087 miles (2025) |
| Eversley Primary School | Standards maintained | (237/398) in Essex | — |
| Felmore Primary School | Good | (254/398) in Essex | — |
| Millhouse Primary School | Good | (271/398) in Essex | — |
| Whitmore Primary School and Nursery | Good | (273/398) in Essex | — |
| Great Berry Primary School | Good | (280/398) in Essex | 0.671 miles (2025) |
| The Phoenix Primary School | Good | (295/398) in Essex | 0.479 miles (2025) |
| Merrylands Primary School | Good | (306/398) in Essex | — |
| Laindon Park Primary School & Nursery | Good | (313/398) in Essex | — |
| Maple Grove Primary School | Ofsted report card | (324/398) in Essex | — |
| Lincewood Primary Academy | — | (331/398) in Essex | — |
| Ghyllgrove Primary School | Good | (332/398) in Essex | — |
| Vange Primary School and Nursery | Good | (353/398) in Essex | — |
| Cherry Tree Primary School | Requires improvement | (371/398) in Essex | — |
| Janet Duke Primary School | Good | (371/398) in Essex | — |
| St Margaret's Church of England Academy, Bowers Gifford | Good | (385/398) in Essex | — |
| Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery | — | — | 0.23 miles (2025) |
| St Anne Line Catholic Infant School | — | — | 0.215 miles (2025) |
State secondary schools (5)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| De La Salle School | School remains Good | Top 50% (36/73) in Essex | — |
| Harris Academy Kingswood | School remains Good | (41/73) in Essex | — |
| The James Hornsby School | Ofsted report card | (52/73) in Essex | — |
| The Basildon Upper Academy | Good | (73/73) in Essex | — |
| The Basildon Lower Academy | Ofsted report card | — | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (163 detached, 191 semi-detached, 567 terraced, 184 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Basildon. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Basildon →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 91% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 99%, on average across the 1,745 postcodes in SS16, SS15, SS14. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 8 outstanding; 31 good, or expected standard; 2 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.58 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 41 in Essex.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, Essex
The next dates for families applyingApplication deadlines and offer days: Essex.
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