The School Record

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

St Ives Infant School

URN 137468 · Primary · Academy converter · Cornwall

Trenwith Burrows, St Ives, TR26 1DH

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, 22 families named St Ives Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 27 offers.

That is 0.81 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 9% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 9% 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 1.0 in 2021–2022 and 0.91 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 22 49 27 0.81
2024 43 62 43 1.00
2023 35 50 35 1.00
2022 44 55 44 1.00
2021 30 44 30 1.00
2020 45 68 49 0.92
2019 42 58 44 0.95
2018 52 64 52 1.00
2017 47 59 48 0.98
2016 43 56 45 0.96
2015 44 60 45 0.98
2014 41 58 41 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 graded inspection (previous framework), 7 February 2024

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 6.0 2.0 1.0 33.3%
2023/24 8.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 8.0 5.0 2.0 1.0 37.5%
2021/22 6.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 50.0%
2020/21 7.7 4.0 1.0 2.7 48.1%
2019/20 5.5 4.7 0.0 0.8 14.5%

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

Cornwall publishes an admission zone for this school (St Ives Infant School, St Ives Junior School).

Covers: 398 live postcodes across 9.576 km².

11 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 St Ives 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 St Ives 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.