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Whitefield Infant School and Nursery
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Every Street, Nelson BB9 7HF · whitefield-inf.lancs.sch.uk · 01282 612807
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2025
- Demand for places
- 1.1
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 336
- 97% of 348 places
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 49.4%
- First language not English
- 96.1%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 95 families put the school first and 83 places were offered; 87% 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 | 83 | 95 | 1.1▲ | 87% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 88 | 88 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 90 | 99 | 1.1▲ | 90% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 74 | 70 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 71 | 70 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Whitefield Infant School and Nursery on 25 February 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 25 Feb 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Outstanding |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Oct 2013
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Oct 2013Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Oct 2008Outstanding
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 (23 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 23
- 7% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 17% who had a child bullied