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Sandwich Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Academy
School Road, Sandwich CT13 9HT · sandwich-infant.kent.sch.uk · 01304 612228
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jan 2024
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 99
- 59% of 168 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Free school meals
- 21.2%
- First language not English
- 10.1%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 44 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 | 44 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 30 | 27 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 30 | 28 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 33 | 31 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 39 | 35 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 30 January 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Sandwich Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 30 Jan 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Apr 2013
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 118547), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Apr 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 118547)
Feb 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 118547)
What parents said
92% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (53 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 92%
- Replies
- 53
- 39% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 68% who raised concerns
based on the 25% who had a child bullied