The School Record

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

Thorns Community Infant School

URN 125550 · Primary · Community school · Warwickshire

Blackthorn Road, Kenilworth, CV8 2DS

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, 38 families named Thorns Community Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 46 offers.

That is 0.83 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 10% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 10% 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 0.84 in 2021–2022 and 0.89 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 38 112 46 0.83
2024 57 127 60 0.95
2023 54 107 56 0.96
2022 47 103 60 0.78
2021 35 101 39 0.90
2020 53 107 58 0.91
2019 52 115 55 0.95
2018 40 117 53 0.75
2017 67 123 60 1.12
2016 50 112 55 0.91
2015 59 124 60 0.98
2014 61 138 61 1.00

“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 202620222026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 28 April 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, 2 March 2022

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 6.8 5.8 1.0 0.0 14.7%
2023/24 5.2 4.2 0.0 1.0 19.2%
2022/23 6.4 5.2 1.0 0.2 18.8%
2021/22 6.8 6.4 0.4 0.0 5.9%
2020/21 6.0 3.8 2.0 0.2 36.7%
2019/20 7.0 5.0 0.0 2.0 28.6%

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 Thorns Community 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.