Springfield Infant School and Nursery

Springfield Infant School and Nursery is performing well overall, with a strong focus on achieving a positive learning environment for its pupils. The school has demonstrated effective leadership and a commitment to safeguarding, ensuring that pupils feel safe and supported. While pupils generally achieve well in reading, writing, and mathematics, and are well-prepared for their next educational stages, there are ongoing efforts to address writing standards across all subjects and knowledge retention in the wider curriculum, especially for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Overall, the school is focused on continuous improvement and has supportive leadership that is responsive to the needs of its students.

Strengths

• Effective safeguarding culture ensuring pupils feel safe
• Broad and well-structured curriculum in place
• Strong emphasis on developing pupils' reading and mathematics skills
• Positive behaviour management and supportive learning environment
• Strong leadership demonstrating ambition for all pupils
• Timely interventions to support pupils' learning needs
• Approach to personal development promotes outdoor learning and teamwork

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent application of writing knowledge across subjects
• Need for more robust checks on pupils' knowledge retention in the wider curriculum
• Precision in adaptations for pupils with the highest needs requires improvement

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 94.5% 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 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 19.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 7.8% 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, 16.4% of pupils at Springfield Infant School and Nursery were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.4% 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 2024–25 Springfield Infant School and Nursery received £6,693 and spent £6,593 for each of its 287 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £266,000 (£929 per pupil).

Across all 7 schools of Orwell Multi Academy Trust, income was £6,821 and spending £6,575 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Ipswich · Suffolk local authority: places and applications

Springfield Infant School and Nursery is part of Orwell Multi Academy Trust, which runs 7 schools. The nearest others:

• Handford Hall Primary School Ipswich
• Halifax Primary School Ipswich
• The Willows Primary School Ipswich
• Brooklands Primary School Nr Manningtree
• Grange Community Primary School Felixstowe
• Grace Cook Primary School Stowmarket

What is Springfield Infant School and Nursery's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Springfield Infant School and Nursery is Expected standard, from an inspection in March 2026.

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

Springfield Infant School and Nursery was last inspected in March 2026.

How many pupils does Springfield Infant School and Nursery have?

Springfield Infant School and Nursery has 287 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 11 Wesley Way, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 4PP.