Mrs Bland's Infant School

Community school·Infant school Reading, West Berkshire·RG7 3LP

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Mrs Bland's Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. 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

100%

39 first choices, 41 places

First choices per place

0.95

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 41 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02

00.511.5

1 per place

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

Every child who put Mrs Bland's Infant School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 187
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

18.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

10.2%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

13.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

4.3%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.1%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

26.5%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

20.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£9,921

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Garland Junior School Reading · 0.4 mi 42.1 Sulhamstead and Ufton Nervet School Reading · 1.2 mi 73.4 Burghfield St Mary's C.E. Primary School Reading · 1.4 mi 36.0 Mortimer St Mary's C.E. Junior School Reading · 2.0 mi 43.6 Theale C.E. Primary School Reading · 2.8 mi 92.8 Calcot Junior School Reading · 3.2 mi 37.8 Kennet Valley Primary School Reading · 3.3 mi 46.4 Englefield C.E. Primary School Reading · 3.4 mi 44.8

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

Mrs Bland's Infant School at a glance

Located in Reading, West Berkshire, Mrs Bland's Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 187 pupils aged 2 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Mrs Bland's Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 41 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.1%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. Mrs Bland's 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.