Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre

Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre continues to perform well, maintaining its status as a good school. Pupils enjoy a supportive and nurturing environment, with strong relationships that contribute to their overall well-being and academic success. The curriculum is ambitious and incorporates various subjects, ensuring that pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), receive a broad education that prepares them for future learning stages. Parents express high levels of satisfaction with the school's efforts in fostering a caring community.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy a friendly and welcoming school environment.
• Strong relationships are fostered between staff and pupils.
• The curriculum is ambitious, particularly in literacy and mathematics.
• Pupils with SEND are well supported and succeed alongside their peers.
• Positive behavior is observed in lessons and during playtimes.
• Parents are overwhelmingly positive about the school's nurturing environment.
• Effective safeguarding practices are in place.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, teachers do not deepen pupils’ understanding as effectively as in reading and mathematics.
• New subject leaders have not yet had the opportunity to fully develop and implement their responsibilities.

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 Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre attended 93.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 21.5% 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, 0.3% of pupils at Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre 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 Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre had 20.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.6% 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, 21.7% of pupils at Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.6% 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 Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre received £11,284 and spent £12,184 for each of its 222 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £623,000 (-£2,807 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).

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What is Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre is Good, from an inspection in November 2022.

When was Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre last inspected by Ofsted?

Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre was last inspected in November 2022.

How many pupils does Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre have?

Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre has 249 pupils on roll.

What age range does Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre cover?

Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre for pupils aged 2 to 7.

Where is Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre?

Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre is at Beresford Road, London, E17 4LN.