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Kettering Park Infant Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Academy
Park Avenue, Kettering NN16 9RU · ketteringparkinfantacademy.co.uk · 01536 481922
On the mapSearch near NN16 9RU
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Mar 2024
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · North Northamptonshire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 220
- 81% of 270 places
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 27.3%
- First language not English
- 49.1%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Inmat
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, 53 families put the school first and 58 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 | 58 | 53 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 58 | 51 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 51 | 46 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 49 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 74 | 54 | 0.7 | 100% |
Ofsted
Kettering Park Infant Academy was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 6 March 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 6 Mar 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, Feb 2020
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Feb 2020Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Nov 2016Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Sept 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
52% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (29 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 52%
- Replies
- 29
- 12% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 93% who raised concerns
based on the 48% who had a child bullied