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The Orchard Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Foundation school
Bridge Road, East Molesey KT8 9HT · orchard.surrey.sch.uk · 020 8979 2945
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- May 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Surrey Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 251
- 93% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Surrey
- Free school meals
- 5.2%
- First language not English
- 8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Surrey Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 77 families put the school first and 87 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 | 87 | 77 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 83 | 71 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 78 | 66 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 89 | 82 | 0.9 | 91% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 70 | 0.8 | 94% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected The Orchard Infant School on 6 May 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Strong standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard
- Personal development and well-being: Strong standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 6 May 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Strong standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Strong standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Strong standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Mar 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2022Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (107 replies, to 2 January 2023).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 107
- 41% · 2 Jan 2023
based on the 63% who raised concerns
based on the 19% who had a child bullied
based on 14 parents (13%) with SEND