Durrington Infant School

Durrington Infant School is performing well overall, with notable strengths in personal development, safeguarding, and curriculum delivery. The school has created a positive, safe environment where students feel valued and supported. Pupils benefit from a broad and ambitious curriculum that fosters life skills and promotes inclusivity. While attendance has improved, leaders are focusing on enhancing writing and ensuring that the pupil premium strategy has a consistent positive impact on disadvantaged pupils' outcomes. Despite these strengths, the school faces challenges in developing key writing skills and spelling, which particularly affect disadvantaged pupils. Although appropriate strategies are in place, their effectiveness is still being established. Overall, leaders demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement, with the community hub and additional support systems in place for vulnerable pupils, reflecting the school's inclusive ethos.

Strengths

• Strong personal development and wellbeing programmes.
• Effective safeguarding culture that ensures pupils feel safe.
• Ambitious and coherent curriculum that meets pupils' needs.
• Inclusion practices that support pupils with special educational needs effectively.
• Improvements in attendance due to personalized support.
• Well-embedded routines that foster a positive learning environment.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils, particularly disadvantaged ones, struggle with spelling and sentence construction.
• The pupil premium strategy evaluation is still being developed.

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 Durrington Infant School attended 95.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.7% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Durrington 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 Durrington Infant School had 23.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.9% 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, 12.0% of pupils at Durrington Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.3% 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 Durrington Infant School received £7,967 and spent £7,643 for each of its 217 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £229,000 (£1,056 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 Durrington Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Durrington Infant School is Expected standard, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Durrington Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Durrington Infant School was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Durrington Infant School have?

Durrington Infant School has 217 pupils on roll.

What age range does Durrington Infant School cover?

Durrington Infant School for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is Durrington Infant School?

Durrington Infant School is at Salvington Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 2JD.