Springfield Infant School and Nursery

Springfield Infant School and Nursery is performing exceptionally well across all areas inspected. Inspectors found outstanding quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. Pupils are described as happy, highly achieving and exceptionally well supported from Nursery onwards, with strong relationships between staff, pupils and families and a curriculum that is ambitious, well sequenced and delivered expertly. The school's work in early reading and mathematics is particularly strong, and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities achieve exceptionally well because additional needs are identified quickly and support is well matched. Behaviour is exemplary, attendance and punctuality are very strong, and pupils benefit from a rich personal development programme and a wide range of opportunities. Staff are well trained, feel well supported and are mindful of workload, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. This was the school's first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and its previous inspection grade was Good. It is a maintained infant and nursery school for pupils aged 3 to 7. Under current arrangements for graded inspections from September 2024, no overall effectiveness grade was given.

Strengths

• Outstanding quality of education across the school
• Ambitious and well-sequenced curriculum delivered with expertise
• Exceptionally strong early mathematics teaching
• Expert phonics teaching and highly effective reading support
• Pupils with SEND achieve exceptionally well
• Exemplary pupil behaviour and strong self-control
• Very strong attendance and punctuality
• Impressive personal development programme
• Outstanding early years provision with a vocabulary-rich setting
• Strong leadership and management with well-supported staff
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

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 Springfield Infant School and Nursery attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.3% 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 Springfield Infant School and Nursery 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 Springfield Infant School and Nursery had 18.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 22.1% 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, 24.2% of pupils at Springfield Infant School and Nursery were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.2% 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 Springfield Infant School and Nursery received £8,411 and spent £8,601 for each of its 161 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £70,000 (£437 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 Springfield Infant School and Nursery's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Springfield Infant School and Nursery is Outstanding, from an inspection in February 2025.

When was Springfield Infant School and Nursery last inspected by Ofsted?

Springfield Infant School and Nursery was last inspected in February 2025.

How many pupils does Springfield Infant School and Nursery have?

Springfield Infant School and Nursery has 161 pupils on roll.

What age range does Springfield Infant School and Nursery cover?

Springfield Infant School and Nursery for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is Springfield Infant School and Nursery?

Springfield Infant School and Nursery is at Sackville Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN14 8BQ.