Bushfield Road Infant School

Bushfield Road Infant School is a happy, welcoming and nurturing school where staff build trusting relationships with pupils. Behaviour and personal development are strengths: pupils are kind, polite and generally positive about learning, and they benefit from a well-developed reading programme, effective support for pupils with SEND in many lessons, and a range of enrichment and after-school activities. Safeguarding arrangements are effective overall, and parents value the care their children receive.

Strengths

• Happy, welcoming and nurturing environment with trusting relationships between staff and pupils
• Pupils are kind, polite and generally have positive attitudes to learning
• Effective phonics and reading support, including early language development and catch-up work
• Strong support for pupils with SEND, with learning generally adapted well
• Good personal development opportunities, including visits, clubs and learning about cultures and relationships
• Staff feel leaders consider their workload and well-being
• Parents and carers are supportive and value the care children receive
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Some older pupils, including some with SEND, have gaps in foundational knowledge from the previous curriculum
• Assessment and checks on learning are not precise enough to identify gaps and adapt future teaching
• Delivery of the revised curriculum is inconsistent, so pupils’ learning experiences vary
• Early years provision does not consistently deepen children’s understanding across all areas of learning
• Some pupils do not attend school often enough and miss important learning
• Leaders do not have an accurate picture of the impact of improvement actions
• Governors have not addressed school priorities at sufficient pace
• Safeguarding record-keeping is not robust enough, with unresolved concerns or decisions and outcomes not clearly recorded

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 Bushfield Road Infant School attended 93.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.7% 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, 1.1% of pupils at Bushfield Road 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 Bushfield Road Infant School had 20.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 18.0% 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, 12.7% of pupils at Bushfield Road Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.9% 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 Bushfield Road Infant School received £8,515 and spent £7,931 for each of its 161 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £55,000 (-£340 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).

• Primary Schools
• Secondary Schools

All schools in Scunthorpe · North Lincolnshire local authority: places and applications

What is Bushfield Road Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Bushfield Road Infant School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in November 2025.

When was Bushfield Road Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Bushfield Road Infant School was last inspected in November 2025.

How many pupils does Bushfield Road Infant School have?

Bushfield Road Infant School has 173 pupils on roll.

What age range does Bushfield Road Infant School cover?

Bushfield Road Infant School for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is Bushfield Road Infant School?

Bushfield Road Infant School is at Bushfield Road, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, DN16 1NA.