The School Record

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

William Austin Infant School

URN 109584 · Primary · Community school · Luton

Culverhouse Road, Luton, LU3 1PZ

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, 98 families named William Austin Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 108 offers.

That is 0.91 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 24% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 24% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.91 in 2021–2022 and 0.93 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 98 185 108 0.91
2024 81 183 85 0.95
2023 88 185 97 0.91
2022 103 192 113 0.91
2021 89 182 98 0.91
2020 113 226 123 0.92
2019 115 241 126 0.91
2018 120 220 133 0.90
2017 121 245 134 0.90
2016 108 263 121 0.89
2015 152 276 150 1.01
2014 120 257 132 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, 16 October 2024

Standards maintained

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 14.6 14.2 0.0 0.4 2.7%
2023/24 13.0 13.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 14.2 13.0 0.0 1.2 8.5%
2021/22 18.8 17.0 0.0 1.8 9.6%
2020/21 17.4 16.4 0.0 1.0 5.7%
2019/20 18.8 17.8 0.0 1.0 5.3%

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 William Austin 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.