Hazelwood Infant School

Hazelwood Infant School is a nurturing, inclusive and calm school where pupils feel safe, valued and respected. Behaviour and personal development are particular strengths: pupils manage their emotions well, show positive attitudes to learning and benefit from a wide range of enrichment, community and wellbeing opportunities. The curriculum is ambitious and well sequenced, including in the early years, and pupils with SEND are identified and supported effectively. Reading and phonics are especially strong, with pupils developing confidence and fluency, and parents value the school's communication and workshops. The school is well led and works in a hard federation with Hazelwood Junior School, sharing leadership and governance. Staff feel supported, safeguarding is effective and the governing body provides valuable support. Leaders have a clear focus on continued improvement. The main area for development is that pupils are not consistently helped to revisit and embed previous learning, which can make it harder for them to connect new knowledge with what they already know. Overall, this is a strong school with high expectations and a purposeful culture. The inspection recognised good quality of education, leadership and early years provision, with outstanding behaviour and personal development. The school's next step is to build regular opportunities for retrieval and consolidation into the curriculum so that learning is remembered securely over time.

Strengths

• Nurturing and inclusive culture where pupils feel safe and valued
• High expectations and strong achievement across areas
• Outstanding behaviour and positive attitudes to learning
• Calm and purposeful environment with effective routines
• Well-sequenced and ambitious curriculum from early years to Year 2
• Strong early years provision that develops language and social skills
• Effective support for pupils with SEND
• Excellent teaching of reading and phonics
• Pupils at risk of falling behind are identified and supported quickly
• Outstanding personal development through enrichment, community and wellbeing activities
• Strong partnership with parents and carers
• Effective safeguarding arrangements
• Supportive leadership that considers staff workload and wellbeing
• Valuable support from the governing body

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum does not consistently provide regular opportunities for pupils to revisit and embed prior learning
• Some pupils find it harder to connect new learning with what they already know

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Hazelwood Infant School attended 95.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Hazelwood Infant School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Hazelwood Infant School had 12.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.4% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 11.1% of pupils at Hazelwood Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Hazelwood Infant School received £7,546 and spent £7,315 for each of its 690 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £316,000 (£459 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). This school files a single return with the other schools in its federation, so the figures are for the whole federation.

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What is Hazelwood Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Hazelwood Infant School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Hazelwood Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Hazelwood Infant School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Hazelwood Infant School have?

Hazelwood Infant School has 323 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hazelwood Infant School cover?

Hazelwood Infant School for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is Hazelwood Infant School?

Hazelwood Infant School is at Hazelwood Lane, London, N13 5HE.