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Havelock Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Academy
Havelock Street, Desborough, Kettering NN14 2LU · havelockschools.org.uk · 01536 760486
On the mapSearch near NN14 2LU
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Outstanding
- Ungraded inspection · Jan 2024
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · North Northamptonshire Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 175
- 65% of 270 places
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Free school meals
- 22.3%
- First language not English
- 6.3%
- 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: North Northamptonshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 58 families put the school first and 58 places were offered; 98% 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 | 58 | 58 | 1 | 98% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 56 | 56 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 52 | 50 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 53 | 51 | 1 | 98% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 73 | 73 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 24 January 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Havelock Infant School was: School remains Outstanding.
- Outcome
- Remains Outstanding
- Inspected
- 23 Jan 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Mar 2016
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Mar 2016Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Jan 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (16 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 16
- 7% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 75% who raised concerns
based on the 19% who had a child bullied