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Herne Bay Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Stanley Road, Herne Bay CT6 5SH · herne-bay.kent.sch.uk · 01227 372245
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Jun 2025
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 259
- 89% of 290 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 44.3%
- First language not English
- 13.9%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 56 families put the school first and 60 places were offered; 98% 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 | 60 | 56 | 0.9 | 98% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 74 | 66 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 62 | 62 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 90 | 74 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 84 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 4 June 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Herne Bay Infant School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 3 Jun 2025
- 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
Apr 2016Good
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 Jan 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (42 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 42
- 15% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 76% who raised concerns
based on the 19% who had a child bullied