Talavera Infant School

Talavera Infant School is a highly inclusive and welcoming school where pupils flourish. Inspectors found exceptional practice in inclusion and leadership and governance, with strong standards across achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, early years, and personal development and wellbeing. Safeguarding standards are met. The school's diverse community, including many service families and pupils who speak English as an additional language, is celebrated, and leaders go to extraordinary lengths to ensure that all pupils and their families develop a sense of belonging. Pupils achieve well from their starting points, including disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Behaviour is excellent, attendance is high, and pupils feel safe and happy. The curriculum is ambitious and well adapted, with a strong focus on language and vocabulary. Early years provision is particularly effective. The only next step is for leaders to continue professional development so that all pupils consistently benefit from high-quality teaching. No significant weaknesses were identified.

Strengths

• Exceptional leadership and governance with high ambition and a clear moral purpose
• Outstanding inclusion and pastoral support for a diverse and highly mobile community
• Strong progress and attainment across the curriculum, including for disadvantaged pupils
• Highly effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those with English as an additional language
• Excellent behaviour and high attendance across all groups of pupils
• Rich early years provision that gives children a fantastic start to their education
• Strong focus on language, vocabulary, and oracy throughout the school
• Positive personal development and wellbeing programme that builds belonging and resilience
• Robust safeguarding culture where pupils feel safe and are kept safe
• Effective use of pupil premium funding and alternative provision
• Strong partnerships with parents, carers, and the wider community

Areas for Improvement

• Continue professional development to ensure consistently high-quality teaching for all pupils

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 Talavera Infant School attended 94.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.9% 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 Talavera Infant School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Talavera Infant School had 19.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 9.1% of pupils at Talavera Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 9.4% 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 Talavera Infant School received £7,835 and spent £7,517 for each of its 298 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £488,000 (£1,638 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 Talavera Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Talavera Infant School is Strong standard, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Talavera Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Talavera Infant School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Talavera Infant School have?

Talavera Infant School has 298 pupils on roll.

What age range does Talavera Infant School cover?

Talavera Infant School for pupils aged 4 to 7.

Where is Talavera Infant School?

Talavera Infant School is at Gun Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 1RG.