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Dudley Infant Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Academy
Harold Road, Hastings TN35 5NJ · dudleyinfantacademy.org.uk · 01424 422981
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Sept 2019
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · East Sussex Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 169
- 94% of 180 places
- Local authority
- East Sussex
- Free school meals
- 25.4%
- First language not English
- 4.1%
- 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: East Sussex Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 30 families put the school first and 33 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 | 33 | 30 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 60 | 60 | 1 | 97% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 52 | 52 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 61 | 1▲ | 89% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 58 | 60 | 1▲ | 87% |
Ofsted
Dudley Infant Academy was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 17 September 2019, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Apr 2025 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 23 Apr 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Sept 2019Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Mar 2017Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Feb 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (53 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 53
- 31% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 72% who raised concerns
based on the 21% who had a child bullied