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Shears Green Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Academy
Packham Road, Northfleet, Gravesend DA11 7JF · shearsgreeninfantschool.co.uk · 01474 566700
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Dec 2024
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 258
- 72% of 360 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 35.3%
- First language not English
- 13.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 65 families put the school first and 73 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 | 73 | 65 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 79 | 73 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 84 | 66 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 89 | 84 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 94 | 78 | 0.8 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 18 December 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Shears Green Infant School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 17 Dec 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2013
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 118265), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jun 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 118265)
Jan 2010Requires 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 118265)
What parents said
73% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (37 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 73%
- Replies
- 37
- 13% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 81% who raised concerns
based on the 35% who had a child bullied