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Hatherley Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Sponsored academy
Hatherley Road, Gloucester GL1 4PW · hatherley-inf.gloucs.sch.uk · 01452 522027
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jan 2024
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Gloucestershire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 190
- 10 over 180 places · 106%
- Local authority
- Gloucestershire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 35%
- First language not English
- 71.6%
- 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: Gloucestershire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 35 families put the school first and 37 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 | 37 | 35 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 31 | 29 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 53 | 51 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 34 | 26 | 0.8 | 100% |
Ofsted
Hatherley Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 30 January 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 30 Jan 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115484)
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Oct 2021
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 115484), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2021Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115484)
Before September 2019
Jan 2018Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115484)
Jun 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 115484)
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (16 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 16
- 9% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 81% who raised concerns
based on the 25% who had a child bullied