The School Record

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

Durrington Infant School

URN 125862 · Primary · Community school · West Sussex

Salvington Road, Worthing, BN13 2JD

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, 50 families named Durrington Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 54 offers.

That is 0.93 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 29% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 29% 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 0.92 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 50 131 54 0.93
2024 54 140 59 0.92
2023 67 169 73 0.92
2022 78 213 91 0.86
2021 84 212 87 0.97
2020 82 189 90 0.91
2019 54 166 62 0.87
2018 55 189 76 0.72
2017 48 118 64 0.75
2016 52 131 68 0.76
2015 50 153 58 0.86
2014 52 113 64 0.81

“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 2026202120232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 24 February 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong 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 graded inspection (previous framework), 20 June 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 24 November 2021

School remains Good (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 11.8 9.8 2.0 0.0 16.9%
2023/24 13.2 11.2 1.0 1.0 15.2%
2022/23 13.4 10.0 3.4 0.0 25.4%
2021/22 10.8 8.0 0.8 2.0 25.9%
2020/21 13.0 11.0 1.0 1.0 15.4%
2019/20 12.0 10.0 2.0 0.0 16.7%

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 Durrington 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.