The School Record

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

Nightingale Infant & Nursery School

URN 146550 · Primary · Academy sponsor led · Norfolk

Nightingale Drive, Norwich, NR8 6LA

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

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, 36 families named Nightingale Infant & Nursery School as their first preference, and the school made 39 offers.

That is 0.92 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 28% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 28% 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 0.92 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 7 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 36 113 39 0.92
2024 40 87 40 1.00
2023 23 68 28 0.82
2022 30 83 32 0.94
2021 25 87 28 0.89
2020 39 88 40 0.97
2019 39 88 43 0.91

“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.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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), 23 May 2023

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

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 5.8 4.8 1.0 0.0 17.2%
2023/24 4.4 4.0 0.4 0.0 9.1%
2022/23 5.8 3.8 2.0 0.0 34.5%
2021/22 6.0 4.4 0.4 1.2 26.7%
2020/21 7.6 6.6 1.0 0.0 13.2%
2019/20 8.2 5.8 1.0 1.4 29.3%

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 (Nightingale Infant & Nursery School).

Covers: 128 live postcodes across 11.063 km².

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

9 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 Nightingale Infant & Nursery 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 Nightingale Infant & Nursery 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.