Parsons Down Infant School

Community school·Infant school Thatcham, West Berkshire·RG19 3SR

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Parsons Down Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 4–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

76%

38 first choices, 29 places

First choices per place

1.31

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 29 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.28

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0720221.1020230.9020241.0320251.312026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Parsons Down Infant School yet. West Berkshire does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 90
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

8.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

12.2%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

15.6%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.3%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.9%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

11.7%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.6

Typical primary: 20.7

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Parsons Down Junior School Thatcham · 0.0 mi 27.7 Whitelands Park Primary School Thatcham · 0.6 mi 37.1 Thatcham Park CofE Primary Thatcham · 0.8 mi 33.2 Fir Tree Primary School and Nursery Newbury · 0.9 mi 38.0 Spurcroft Primary School Thatcham · 0.9 mi 31.8 Francis Baily Primary School Thatcham · 1.3 mi 41.2 St Finian's Catholic Primary School Thatcham · 1.6 mi 53.2 St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Newbury · 1.7 mi 29.2

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Parsons Down Infant School at a glance

Located in Thatcham, West Berkshire, Parsons Down Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 90 pupils aged 4 to 7.

Parsons Down Infant School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 38 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.9%. There are about 19.6 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 9% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Parsons Down Infant School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.