The School Record

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

Caister Infant With Nursery School

URN 120796 · Primary · Community school · Norfolk

Kingston Avenue, Great Yarmouth, NR30 5ET

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, 69 families named Caister Infant With Nursery School as their first preference, and the school made 71 offers.

That is 0.97 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 48% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 48% 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 0.97 in 2021–2022 and 0.99 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 69 93 71 0.97
2024 69 92 69 1.00
2023 66 81 68 0.97
2022 67 85 68 0.99
2021 72 88 76 0.95
2020 66 85 67 0.99
2019 77 94 79 0.97
2018 70 80 70 1.00
2017 85 97 86 0.99
2016 85 104 86 0.99
2015 77 96 78 0.99
2014 103 126 89 1.16

“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 2021 to 202620212026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 12 May 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Early years: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 17 November 2021

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 12.6 10.8 1.8 0.0 14.3%
2023/24 13.0 10.4 1.0 1.6 20.0%
2022/23 14.4 12.4 2.0 0.0 13.9%
2021/22 13.6 11.0 1.9 0.7 19.1%
2020/21 11.1 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 13.4 9.8 3.2 0.4 26.9%

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

Norfolk publishes an admission zone for this school (Caister Infant with Nursery School).

Covers: 259 live postcodes across 10.935 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Caister Junior School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

9 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Caister Infant With Nursery School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Caister Infant With Nursery 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.