Badshot Lea Village Infant School

Badshot Lea Village Infant School continues to be a good school, with all key judgements—quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision—judged good. It is a happy, friendly and safe school at the heart of its community, where staff know families well and parents are overwhelmingly positive. Pupils behave well, achieve well and are well supported, including those with SEND and those in the school's specially resourced provision for autism and/or social communication difficulties. The school has high expectations and provides a broad, inclusive and nurturing environment. Reading and phonics are particular strengths: children become confident readers quickly, books match ability closely, and extra help is provided promptly when needed. Mathematics is taught clearly, personal development is carefully planned, and attendance is a high priority. Safeguarding arrangements are effective, and leaders and governors are reflective and resourceful, with staff reporting they feel valued. The main area for improvement is the wider curriculum. In some subjects beyond reading, writing and mathematics, the precise knowledge, skills and vocabulary pupils should learn at each stage are not clearly defined or logically sequenced, so pupils do not build and remember important information as well as they could. This was the school's first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strengths

• Strong community ethos with happy, safe pupils and positive parental feedback
• High expectations for achievement, including for pupils with SEND
• Highly inclusive and nurturing environment with expert SEND support
• Strong reading and phonics provision with close matching of books to ability
• Clear mathematics teaching that helps pupils understand concepts
• Good behaviour and orderly movement around school
• Carefully considered personal development programme
• Effective safeguarding arrangements
• Resourceful leaders and governors who support staff well
• Attendance is a high priority with effective systems

Areas for Improvement

• In some wider curriculum subjects, precise knowledge, skills and vocabulary are not clearly defined or sequenced
• Pupils do not build and remember important information as well as they could in those 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 Badshot Lea Village Infant School attended 94.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.5% 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 Badshot Lea Village 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 Badshot Lea Village Infant School had 18.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.2% 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, 8.2% of pupils at Badshot Lea Village Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 12.2% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has a SEN unit with 12 pupils.

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 Badshot Lea Village Infant School received £9,415 and spent £9,887 for each of its 147 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £117,000 (£793 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 Badshot Lea Village Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Badshot Lea Village Infant School is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Badshot Lea Village Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Badshot Lea Village Infant School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Badshot Lea Village Infant School have?

Badshot Lea Village Infant School has 147 pupils on roll.

What age range does Badshot Lea Village Infant School cover?

Badshot Lea Village Infant School for pupils aged 4 to 7.

Where is Badshot Lea Village Infant School?

Badshot Lea Village Infant School is at Badshot Lea Road, Badshot Lea, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 9LE.