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Stourfield Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Academy
Cranleigh Road, Southbourne, Bournemouth BH6 5JS · stourfieldinfants.com · 01202 424585
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2024
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2025 entry · Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 200
- 56% of 360 places
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Free school meals
- 11.5%
- First language not English
- 11%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Twynham Learning
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2025, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 61 families put the school first and 73 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 | 73 | 61 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 59 | 50 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 75 | 58 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 52 | 47 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 71 | 60 | 0.8 | 100% |
Ofsted
Stourfield Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 20 February 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 20 Feb 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 | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Oct 2021
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2021Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding
What parents said
86% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (93 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 86%
- Replies
- 93
- 37% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 22% who had a child bullied
based on 15 parents (16%) with SEND