Pashley Down Infant School

Pashley Down Infant School continues to maintain a good standard of education, characterized by a supportive and engaging environment for its pupils. The school's values of respect, kindness, and resilience resonate strongly with students, contributing to their happiness and well-being. Notably, the school emphasizes outdoor learning and offers a diverse range of extracurricular activities, such as trips and maintaining a school farm, which enrich pupils' experiences and foster positive attitudes towards learning. Staff expectations around behavior are high, creating a calm and imaginative play environment for children.

Strengths

• Pupils are very happy and engaged in a supportive school environment.
• Strong values of respect, kindness, and resilience are well understood by pupils.
• High expectations for pupil behavior create a calm playground atmosphere.
• Pupils achieve well, including those with special educational needs.
• The curriculum is well-designed, promoting beautiful presentation of work.
• Effective phonics approach helps early readers succeed.
• Strong leadership and support from governors enhance school performance.

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment strategies in foundation subjects are not consistently effective.
• Some pupils do not always build on prior knowledge and achieve their full potential.

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 Pashley Down Infant School attended 94.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.7% 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 Pashley Down 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 Pashley Down Infant School had 19.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 5.3% 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, 14.3% of pupils at Pashley Down Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.0% 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 Pashley Down Infant School received £7,668 and spent £7,886 for each of its 230 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £35,000 (-£153 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 Pashley Down Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Pashley Down Infant School is Good, from an inspection in April 2024.

When was Pashley Down Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Pashley Down Infant School was last inspected in April 2024.

How many pupils does Pashley Down Infant School have?

Pashley Down Infant School has 230 pupils on roll.

What age range does Pashley Down Infant School cover?

Pashley Down Infant School for pupils aged 4 to 7.

Where is Pashley Down Infant School?

Pashley Down Infant School is at Beechy Avenue, Pashley Down Infant School, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN20 8NX.