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Elmtree Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Academy
Elmtree Hill, Chesham HP5 2PA · elmtreeschoolandnursery.co.uk · 01494 771474
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Buckinghamshire Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 160
- 70% of 228 places
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 26%
- First language not English
- 26.3%
- 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: Buckinghamshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 28 families put the school first and 29 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 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 44 | 35 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 39 | 32 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 31 | 29 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 45 | 42 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 12 March 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Elmtree Infant and Nursery School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 11 Mar 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2017
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 110309), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Nov 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 110309)
Mar 2015Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 110309)
What parents said
81% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (36 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 81%
- Replies
- 36
- 19% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 78% who raised concerns
based on the 28% who had a child bullied