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Bushfield Road Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Bushfield Road, Scunthorpe DN16 1NA · bushfieldinfants.co.uk · 01724 842829
On the mapSearch near DN16 1NA
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Sept 2025
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 173
- 79% of 219 places
- Local authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 31.8%
- First language not English
- 11%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 51 families put the school first and 51 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 | 51 | 51 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 39 | 35 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 64 | 1.1▲ | 92% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 48 | 48 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 59 | 57 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Bushfield Road Infant School on 24 September 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 24 Sept 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Nov 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2022Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 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 (31 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 31
- 14% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 16% who had a child bullied