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Drayton Community Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Sponsored academy
School Road, Drayton, Norwich NR8 6EP · draytoninfantschool.co.uk · 01603 860272
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Dec 2024
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 185
- 69% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- Free school meals
- 8.6%
- First language not English
- 6.5%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Clarion Corvus Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 49 families put the school first and 50 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 | 50 | 49 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 55 | 55 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 63 | 63 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 57 | 54 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 85 | 82 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Drayton Community Infant School on 10 December 2024 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 10 Dec 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, May 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 131278), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
May 2022Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Dec 2013Good
Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 131278)
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (24 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 24
- 11% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 71% who raised concerns
based on the 25% who had a child bullied