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Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Academy
Longslow Road, Market Drayton TF9 3BA · marketdraytoninfants.co.uk · 01630 652909
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Sept 2022
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 346
- 76 over 270 places · 128%
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 19.9%
- First language not English
- 7.8%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Empower Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 53 families put the school first and 53 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 | 53 | 53 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 89 | 87 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 83 | 83 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 75 | 75 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 80 | 80 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 15 September 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 14 Sept 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2013
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 123382), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Nov 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 123382)
Oct 2011Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 123382)
What parents said
97% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (37 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 97%
- Replies
- 37
- 9% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 62% who raised concerns
based on the 19% who had a child bullied