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Hadleigh Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Academy
Bilton Road, Hadleigh, Benfleet SS7 2HQ · hadleigh-inf.essex.sch.uk · 01702 557979
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Apr 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Essex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 302
- 87% of 348 places
- Local authority
- Essex
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 8.3%
- First language not English
- 3.6%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2025, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Essex Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 55 families put the school first and 72 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 | 72 | 55 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 84 | 70 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 85 | 57 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 88 | 81 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 72 | 0.8 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 24 April 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Hadleigh Infant and Nursery School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 23 Apr 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Feb 2020
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Feb 2020Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Jan 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (41 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 41
- 13% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 71% who raised concerns
based on the 10% who had a child bullied