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Lydgate Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Community school
Lydgate Lane, Sheffield S10 5FQ · lydgateinfant.co.uk · 0114 266 2450
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jun 2023
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 339
- 94% of 360 places
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Free school meals
- 9.1%
- First language not English
- 25.1%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 74 families put the school first and 78 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 78 | 74 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 110 | 108 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 115 | 102 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 119 | 129 | 1.1▲ | 91% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 104 | 100 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 21 June 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Lydgate Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 20 Jun 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Dec 2017
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Dec 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective May 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
87% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (79 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 87%
- Replies
- 79
- 22% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 68% who raised concerns
based on the 20% who had a child bullied