Boughton Leigh Infant School

Boughton Leigh Infant School is a caring infant school where pupils feel safe and behave well, and where personal development and wellbeing are clear strengths. Safeguarding standards are met. Inspectors judged attendance and behaviour, and personal development and wellbeing, as meeting the expected standard, but found that achievement, curriculum and teaching, early years, inclusion, and leadership and governance need attention. The school's strongest features include warm relationships, effective pastoral support, strong promotion of its Woodland values, a calm and orderly environment, and a rich offer of outdoor learning, clubs, trips and responsibilities. Pupils generally read with age-appropriate fluency and achieve well in mathematics. Leaders' work on attendance has halted decline and is reducing persistent absence. The school includes a specialist resourced provision for up to eight pupils with speech, language and communication needs, which opened in January 2026, and at the time of inspection it was being led by the substantive deputy headteacher. However, too many pupils, especially those with SEND and lower starting points, do not secure foundational knowledge in handwriting and spelling, and some pupils in the specialist resourced provision do not make the progress they should. Teaching quality is variable, phonics catch-up is not quick enough for some pupils, early years writing and learning environments are inconsistent, and inclusion plans are not precise enough. Leaders have identified the right priorities and are beginning to increase the pace of improvement, but monitoring and implementation are not yet consistently effective, and governors do not yet have a clear enough understanding of the impact of improvement work.

Strengths

• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture of safeguarding.
• Pupils feel safe and behave well; the school environment is calm.
• Attendance actions have halted decline and persistent absence is reducing.
• Strong pastoral support; staff know pupils well and respond quickly.
• School values are promoted extremely well and pupils understand them.
• Pupils benefit from a rich personal development programme, clubs, trips and outdoor learning.
• Most pupils read with age-appropriate fluency and accuracy.
• Pupils achieve well in mathematics and mostly learn wider curriculum knowledge and vocabulary.
• Early years personal, social and emotional development is a strength; children collaborate, share and concentrate.
• Leaders accurately identify priorities and have improved attendance work.
• Governors maintain close oversight of attendance and staff value support for wellbeing.

Areas for Improvement

• Too many pupils leave Year 2 unable to form letters correctly, slowing writing fluency.
• Pupils with SEND and lower starting points do not secure foundational handwriting and spelling knowledge.
• Pupils in the specialist resourced provision are not making the progress they should.
• Phonics catch-up support does not help some pupils catch up quickly enough.
• Teaching quality is variable in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Some staff do not have an accurate enough understanding of pupils' needs and starting points.
• Handwriting and spelling are not consistently checked or assessed well enough.
• Early years writing teaching is less effective and environments/resources do not always support intended learning.
• Some early years activities lack clear learning focus and staff do not know what children need next.
• Inclusion plans lack precision, so staff are not always clear how to support pupils.
• Leaders do not monitor SEND support closely enough or understand how well SEND and disadvantaged pupils are learning.
• Improvement actions sometimes lack precision and pace is too slow to embed consistently.
• Governors do not have a sufficiently clear understanding of the impact of some leaders' work.
• Overall absence and persistent absence were above national averages in 2024/25.

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 Boughton Leigh Infant School attended 93.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.2% 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, 0.7% of pupils at Boughton Leigh 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 Boughton Leigh Infant School had 21.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.8% 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, 14.8% of pupils at Boughton Leigh Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.8% 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 Boughton Leigh Infant School received £8,552 and spent £8,980 for each of its 242 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £174,000 (£718 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 Boughton Leigh Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Boughton Leigh Infant School is Needs attention, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Boughton Leigh Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Boughton Leigh Infant School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Boughton Leigh Infant School have?

Boughton Leigh Infant School has 257 pupils on roll.

What age range does Boughton Leigh Infant School cover?

Boughton Leigh Infant School for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is Boughton Leigh Infant School?

Boughton Leigh Infant School is at Wetherall Way, Brownsover, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1LT.