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Hempstead Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Hempstead Road, Hempstead, Gillingham ME7 3QG · hempsteadschoolsfederation.org.uk · 01634 336963
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2024
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 251
- 93% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Medway
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 7.2%
- First language not English
- 6%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 81 families put the school first and 86 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 | 86 | 81 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 89 | 85 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 70 | 60 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 78 | 73 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 92 | 1▲ | 93% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 13 March 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Hempstead Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 12 Mar 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2018
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Sept 2018Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective May 2016Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Mar 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 (118 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 118
- 45% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 65% who raised concerns
based on the 15% who had a child bullied
based on 19 parents (16%) with SEND