Heather Ridge Infant School

Heather Ridge Infant School is performing well overall, rated as good across all areas including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. This marks a change from its previous outstanding grade, which it received 14 years ago under a different inspection framework. The school's supportive environment is credited with fostering kindness and a sense of community among pupils, who feel safe and confident in their learning. However, the recent pandemic and the long gap since the last inspection have introduced challenges in ensuring all areas of the curriculum are effectively sequenced and taught.

Strengths

• Pupils flourish in a caring and nurturing environment.
• Staff provide supportive help to encourage inquisitive learning.
• A strong emphasis on reading leads to rapid progress.
• Pupils with SEND make strong progress due to effective support.
• Leaders prioritize the identification of pupils needing extra support.
• Pupils engage in a variety of clubs and activities that enrich their interests.

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects lack precise identification of key knowledge.
• Inconsistent checking of pupil understanding in certain subjects.

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 Heather Ridge Infant School attended 95.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 4.9% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Heather Ridge 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 Heather Ridge Infant School had 25.9 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, 5.4% of pupils at Heather Ridge Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.3% 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 Heather Ridge Infant School received £6,336 and spent £6,349 for each of its 181 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £98,000 (£539 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 Heather Ridge Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Heather Ridge Infant School is Good, from an inspection in March 2023.

When was Heather Ridge Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Heather Ridge Infant School was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does Heather Ridge Infant School have?

Heather Ridge Infant School has 184 pupils on roll.

What age range does Heather Ridge Infant School cover?

Heather Ridge Infant School for pupils aged 2 to 7.

Where is Heather Ridge Infant School?

Heather Ridge Infant School is at Martindale Avenue, Heatherside Estate, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 1AY.