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Eastfield Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Pig Lane, St Ives PE27 5QT · eastfieldinfants.org · 01480 463958
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Sept 2019
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 211
- 96% of 219 places
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 10.4%
- First language not English
- 53.1%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 49 families put the school first and 50 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 | 50 | 49 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 51 | 51 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 48 | 44 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 46 | 45 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 58 | 57 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Eastfield Infant and Nursery School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 25 September 2019, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Nov 2024 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 26 Nov 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Sept 2019Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jun 2017Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Mar 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding
What parents said
96% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (46 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 96%
- Replies
- 46
- 22% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 70% who raised concerns
based on the 13% who had a child bullied