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Pickhurst Infant Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Academy
Pickhurst Lane, West Wickham BR4 0HL · pickhurst-inf.bromley.sch.uk · 020 8462 3196
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- May 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Bromley Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 336
- 93% of 360 places
- Local authority
- Bromley
- Free school meals
- 7.7%
- First language not English
- 20.8%
- 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: Bromley Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 105 families put the school first and 107 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
Demand for places
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 107 | 105 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 120 | 124 | 1▲ | 97% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 96 | 90 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 107 | 97 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 120 | 110 | 0.9 | 97% |
Last distance offered
| Reception | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | All | |
| September 2024 | All | |
| September 2025 | 3.01 mi4.84 km | |
The council marks the school as undersubscribed for 2024 and 2026: everyone who applied was offered a place.
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Pickhurst Infant Academy on 12 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: Strong standard
- Achievement: Strong standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard
- Personal development and well-being: Strong standard
- Early years: Strong standard
- Leadership and governance: Strong standard
- Inspected
- 12 May 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Strong standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Strong standard |
| Achievement | Strong standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Strong standard |
| Early years | Strong standard |
| Leadership and governance | Strong standard |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Jan 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Jan 2022Outstanding
Quality of education Outstanding Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Nov 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding
What parents said
93% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (54 replies, to 2 January 2023).
- Recommend
- 93%
- Replies
- 54
- 15% · 2 Jan 2023
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 13% who had a child bullied