PRIMARY schools are celebrating after a new batch of promising reading, writing and maths results were released.

The primary school league tables, released by the Department for Education last week, show how schools across the country fared in the summer’s Sats tests.

Pupils aged ten and 11 are expected to achieve Level 4 or above in the national curriculum tests in reading, writing and maths.

The biggest success story for Brentwood is Warley Primary School, in Chindits Lane, where 100 per cent of pupils elegible for the exams achieved at least a Level 4, an improvement on last year when 87 per cent of the pupils gained the grade.

Twenty-eight per cent of the pupils taking the exams achieved at least Level 5 and the school achieved one of the highest average total points scores at 30.6.

Another school that stood out was St Peter’s Church of England Primary, in Wigley Bush Lane, Brentwood, where 98 per cent of pupils achieved at least a Level 4 and 60 per cent gained Level 5 or more.

The school also achieved the highest average points score in the area at 32.2.

Pupils at Ingrave Johnstone Primary School, in Brentwood Road, did well, with 97 per cent achieving the expected grade and 42 per cent exceeding it by gaining Level 5 or higher, meaning that the average level achieved was Level 5C.

One of the schools that did not fare so well was West Horndon Primary, in Thorndon Avenue, Brentwood, where just 57 per cent of pupils achieved the expected grade in all three subjects and had one of lowest average point scores at 28.6.

But, in individual subjects, 86 per cent of pupils gained Level 4 or higher in maths and reading, 64 per cent got the grade in grammar, spelling and punctuation tests and 71 per cent achieved the expected level in writing.