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Highfield Infants' School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Academy
Highfield Drive, Shortlands, Bromley BR2 0RX · highfield.bromley.sch.uk · 020 8464 7804
Overview
- Ofsted
- Outstanding
- 2019 framework · inspected Jun 2022
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Bromley Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 245
- 91% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Bromley
- Free school meals
- 2.4%
- First language not English
- 24.9%
- 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, 76 families put the school first and 86 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 | 86 | 76 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 90 | 80 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 83 | 75 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 90 | 102 | 1.1▲ | 85% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 87 | 1 | 94% |
Last distance offered
| Reception | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | All | |
| September 2024 | All | |
| September 2025 | 1.95 mi3.13 km | |
The council marks the school as undersubscribed for 2024 and 2026: everyone who applied was offered a place.
Ofsted
Highfield Infants' School was judged Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 21 June 2022, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Outstanding
- Inspected
- 21 Jun 2022
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Outstanding |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Jan 2008
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jan 2008Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding
What parents said
87% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (77 replies, to 2 April 2023).
- Recommend
- 87%
- Replies
- 77
- 29% · 2 Apr 2023
based on the 61% who raised concerns
based on the 26% who had a child bullied