Graded inspection · Sep 2023 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Norfolk
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry54 applications · 35 places offered · 34 named it first
- 2026 1.5; Norfolk median median 2.0
- 2025 1.3; Norfolk median median 2.0
- 2024 1.4; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2023 1.2; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2022 1.2; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2021 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2020 1.1; Norfolk median median 1.7
- 2019 1.2; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2018 1.1; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2017 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2016 1.2; Norfolk median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.3; Norfolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.1; Norfolk median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Norfolk median
Dashed bars: as Fakenham Infant & Nursery School (URN 121005), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 35 | 54 | 1.5 | 34 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2025 | 51 | 64 | 1.3 | 51 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 59 | 80 | 1.4 | 63 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2023 | 58 | 72 | 1.2 | 63 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2022 | 59 | 72 | 1.2 | 64 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2021 | 56 | 72 | 1.3 | 56 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 59 | 66 | 1.1 | 59 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 75 | 86 | 1.2 | 74 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2018 * | 79 | 90 | 1.1 | 79 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 * | 67 | 85 | 1.3 | 67 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 90 | 111 | 1.2 | 92 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2015 * | 71 | 90 | 1.3 | 71 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 80 | 90 | 1.1 | 81 | 1.01 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Fakenham Infant and Nursery SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20231.5applications per place
- 0.6 km · NorfolkGood202335%met the SATs standard
- 3.2 km · NorfolkGood20242.5applications per place
- 3.5 km · NorfolkRemains Good20244.5applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 4.2 km · NorfolkGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place 46%met the SATs standard
- Requires improvement20231.6applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 7.6 km · Norfolk20265.0applications per place
- 7.8 km · NorfolkGood20231.7applications per place 58%met the SATs standard
- 8.2 km · NorfolkRemains Good20242.3applications per place
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 146684 · 926/2393
- Capacity
- 322 pupils · 207 on roll
- Free school meals
- 20.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 April 2019
- Replaced
- Fakenham Infant & Nursery School (URN 121005)
- Address
- Norwich Road, Fakenham, NR21 8HN
- Local authority
- Norfolk · North Norfolk
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources