The School Record

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

Sprowston Infant School

URN 120853 · Primary · Community school · Norfolk

Recreation Ground Road, Norwich, NR7 8EW

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, 27 families named Sprowston Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 34 offers.

That is 0.79 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 7% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 7% 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 0.99 in 2021–2022 and 0.86 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 27 100 34 0.79
2024 28 71 30 0.93
2023 29 72 30 0.97
2022 47 90 47 1.00
2021 39 84 40 0.97
2020 38 79 42 0.90
2019 38 80 38 1.00
2018 51 113 51 1.00
2017 57 123 60 0.95
2016 66 125 60 1.10
2015 68 120 60 1.13
2014 56 107 57 0.98

“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 2020 to 202520202025

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 13 May 2025

Standards maintained

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 12 February 2020

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

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 9.0 8.0 1.0 0.0 11.1%
2023/24 8.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 8.8 7.2 1.0 0.6 18.2%
2021/22 9.1 8.8 0.0 0.3 3.3%
2020/21 9.9 8.3 1.6 0.0 16.2%
2019/20 8.9 7.7 0.0 1.2 13.5%

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 (Sprowston Infant School).

Covers: 116 live postcodes across 3.099 km².

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

24 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.

Norfolk publishes an admission zone for this school (Sprowston Infant School).

Covers: 18 live postcodes across 0.270 km².

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

4 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.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

Norfolk publishes an admission zone for this school (Sprowston Infant School).

Covers: 1 live postcodes across 0.010 km².

1 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.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Sprowston Infant 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 Sprowston 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.