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Cockton Hill Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Community school
McIntyre Terrace, Cockton Hill, Bishop Auckland DL14 6HW · cocktonhill-inf.durham.sch.uk · 01388 604627
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Dec 2024
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 146
- 81% of 180 places
- Local authority
- County Durham
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 50%
- First language not English
- 11%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 36 families put the school first and 37 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 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 36 | 36 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 42 | 41 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 48 | 45 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 53 | 50 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 18 December 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Cockton Hill Infant School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 17 Dec 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Dec 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Dec 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Feb 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (27 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 27
- 16% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 48% who raised concerns
based on the 11% who had a child bullied