The School Record

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

Brookfield Infant School

URN 118484 · Primary · Community school · Kent

Swallow Road, Aylesford, ME20 6PY

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 Brookfield Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 56 offers.

That is 0.96 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 44% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 44% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.44 in 2021–2022 and 0.95 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 54 114 56 0.96
2024 49 136 52 0.94
2023 76 150 60 1.27
2022 91 154 60 1.52
2021 82 145 60 1.37
2020 66 125 60 1.10
2019 64 140 59 1.08
2018 52 114 54 0.96
2017 71 139 60 1.18
2016 48 111 60 0.80
2015 54 113 60 0.90
2014 42 102 60 0.70

“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 inspections from 2022 to 202320222023

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 19 April 2023

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 23 March 2022

School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next

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 7.8 5.4 0.8 1.6 30.8%
2023/24 8.2 6.2 0.4 1.6 24.4%
2022/23 10.6 6.6 2.0 2.0 37.7%
2021/22 9.6 9.2 0.0 0.4 4.2%
2020/21 10.2 7.8 1.2 1.2 23.5%
2019/20 10.2 10.2 0.0 0.0 0.0%

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 Brookfield 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.