The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Garden Suburb Infant School

URN 101282 · Primary · Community school · Barnet

Childs Way, London, NW11 6XU

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 54 families named Garden Suburb Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 62 offers.

That is 0.87 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 17% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 17% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.63 in 2021–2022 and 0.87 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 54 139 62 0.87
2024 51 151 59 0.86
2023 58 188 79 0.73
2022 57 182 88 0.65
2021 48 177 78 0.62
2020 71 193 89 0.80
2019 68 196 89 0.76
2018 68 209 89 0.76
2017 86 239 90 0.96
2016 73 235 90 0.81
2015 86 264 89 0.97
2014 81 240 89 0.91

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 13 July 2023

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 11.4 9.4 1.6 0.4 17.5%
2023/24 11.6 11.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 13.2 11.4 0.6 1.2 13.6%
2021/22 12.9 12.4 0.0 0.4 3.1%
2020/21 14.0 10.9 0.4 2.6 21.4%
2019/20 13.2 11.7 0.0 1.4 10.6%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Garden Suburb Infant School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.