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Pickering Community Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Ruffa Lane, Pickering YO18 7AT · pickering-inf.n-yorks.sch.uk · 01751 472620
On the mapSearch near YO18 7AT
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jul 2024
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 197
- 88% of 225 places
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 18.8%
- First language not English
- 2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 48 families put the school first and 50 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 | 50 | 48 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 49 | 47 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 48 | 46 | 1 | 98% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 47 | 46 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 43 | 44 | 1▲ | 98% |
Ofsted
Pickering Community Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 9 July 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 9 Jul 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Apr 2019
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Apr 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective Jul 2015Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Sept 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good
What parents said
93% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (40 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 93%
- Replies
- 40
- 22% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 60% who raised concerns
based on the 17% who had a child bullied