The School Record

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

Darrick Wood Infant & Nursery School

URN 137032 · Primary · Academy converter · Bromley

Lovibonds Avenue, Orpington, BR6 8ER

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, 87 families named Darrick Wood Infant & Nursery School as their first preference, and the school made 87 offers.

That is 1.00 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 53% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 53% 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 0.94 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 87 352 87 1.00
2024 62 298 69 0.90
2023 70 304 81 0.86
2022 75 308 87 0.86
2021 92 356 90 1.02
2020 82 384 96 0.85
2019 92 439 94 0.98
2018 70 430 91 0.77
2017 79 430 93 0.85
2016 95 462 90 1.06
2015 119 434 90 1.32
2014 95 452 90 1.06

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 5 December 2023

Overall effectiveness: Outstanding

Quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: Outstanding

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 12.4 12.4 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2023/24 10.2 7.2 1.0 2.0 29.4%
2022/23 12.6 6.2 2.2 4.2 50.8%
2021/22 12.7 9.2 0.0 3.5 27.6%
2020/21 13.1 12.7 0.0 0.4 3.1%
2019/20 12.7 12.7 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 Darrick Wood Infant & Nursery School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

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