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St Joseph's Catholic Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Academy
Hazell Avenue, Aylesbury HP21 7JF · stjosephsrcinfant.bucks.sch.uk · 01296 484618
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · May 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
- 213
- 33 over 180 places · 118%
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 15%
- First language not English
- 47.4%
- 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, 35 families put the school first and 35 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 | 35 | 35 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 58 | 42 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 41 | 38 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 49 | 41 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 49 | 47 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 8 May 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for St Joseph's Catholic Infant School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 7 May 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Nov 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 110478), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 110478)
Before September 2019
May 2016Good
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 110478)
Jan 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 110478)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (11 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 11
- 5% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 55% who raised concerns
based on the 18% who had a child bullied