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Sparhawk Infant School & Nursery
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Sparhawk Avenue, Sprowston, Norwich NR7 8BU · sprowstonsparhawk.norfolk.sch.uk · 01603 406406
Overview
- Ofsted
- Outstanding
- 2019 framework · inspected Nov 2019
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 188
- 8 over 180 places · 104%
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 10.6%
- First language not English
- 12.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 33 families put the school first and 42 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 | 42 | 33 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 49 | 42 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 51 | 48 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 57 | 64 | 1.1▲ | 89% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 60 | 62 | 1▲ | 95% |
Ofsted
Sparhawk Infant School & Nursery was judged Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 13 November 2019, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Feb 2025 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 25 Feb 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Nov 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2019Outstanding
Quality of education Outstanding Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Mar 2019Ungraded inspectionImproving
Safeguarding Effective Mar 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Nov 2008Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
82% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (17 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 82%
- Replies
- 17
- 8% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 82% who raised concerns
based on the 35% who had a child bullied