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St Stephen's Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Academy
Hales Drive, St Stephen's, Canterbury CT2 7AB · turnerststephensinfant.com · 01227 769204
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jan 2024
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 263
- 97% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Free school meals
- 33%
- First language not English
- 36.1%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Turner Schools
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 63 families put the school first and 69 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 | 69 | 63 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 88 | 76 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 70 | 55 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 90 | 82 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 80 | 72 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
St Stephen's Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 23 January 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 23 Jan 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: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Oct 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 118538), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 118538)
Before September 2019
Jun 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 118538)
Dec 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 118538)
What parents said
93% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (134 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 93%
- Replies
- 134
- 50% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 71% who raised concerns
based on the 28% who had a child bullied
based on 19 parents (14%) with SEND