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Dropmore Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Littleworth Road, Dropmore, Burnham SL1 8PF · dropmore.school · 01753 644403
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2024
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Buckinghamshire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 64
- 85% of 75 places
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 6.3%
- First language not English
- 4.7%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Buckinghamshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 17 families put the school first and 20 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 | 20 | 17 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 25 | 24 | 1 | 92% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 25 | 30 | 1.2▲ | 67% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 25 | 20 | 0.8 | 85% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 20 | 13 | 0.7 | 100% |
Ofsted
Dropmore Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 20 February 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 20 Feb 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Feb 2012
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Feb 2012Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding May 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (24 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 24
- 39% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 79% who raised concerns
based on the 12% who had a child bullied