Halfway Nursery Infant School

Halfway Nursery Infant School continues to demonstrate good performance, providing a nurturing environment where pupils feel happy and safe. The strong relationships between staff and students, along with a high emphasis on expectations for behaviour and learning, create a positive atmosphere that fosters effective learning. The school has made significant strides in enhancing its curriculum and supporting pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), resulting in good overall achievement for its pupils. However, as the curriculum changes are still in the early stages of implementation, there is recognition that further embedding of these changes is required to ensure consistent and high-quality education for all students as they progress through the school.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, safe, and enjoy a nurturing environment.
• Strong emphasis on high expectations for behaviour and learning.
• Curriculum changes are ambitious and recognized as beneficial.
• Effective support for pupils with SEND helps them achieve well.
• Improvements in reading instruction with a well-implemented phonics scheme.
• Strong early years foundation with a focus on language development and independent learning.
• Improvements in pupil attendance through proactive measures.
• Strong relationships within the school community, fostering a family feel.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum changes are not fully embedded across the school yet.

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 Halfway Nursery Infant School attended 94.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.0% 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, 0.5% of pupils at Halfway Nursery 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 Halfway Nursery Infant School had 19.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.9% 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, 9.6% of pupils at Halfway Nursery Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.5% 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 Halfway Nursery Infant School received £7,131 and spent £7,516 for each of its 184 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £64,000 (-£350 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 Halfway Nursery Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Halfway Nursery Infant School is Good, from an inspection in June 2024.

When was Halfway Nursery Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Halfway Nursery Infant School was last inspected in June 2024.

How many pupils does Halfway Nursery Infant School have?

Halfway Nursery Infant School has 197 pupils on roll.

What age range does Halfway Nursery Infant School cover?

Halfway Nursery Infant School for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is Halfway Nursery Infant School?

Halfway Nursery Infant School is at Station Road, Halfway, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S20 3GU.