St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery School

Voluntary aided school·Infant school Newbury, West Berkshire·RG14 7DE

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. 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

91%

53 first choices, 58 places

First choices per place

0.91

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

123

any preference, for 58 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0320220.9720231.0020240.8920250.912026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery 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).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 188
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

13.4%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

35.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

5.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.1%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

21.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

21.3

Typical primary: 20.7

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

Nearby primary schools

St Nicolas C.E. Junior School Newbury · 0.4 mi 35.1 The Willows Primary School Newbury · 0.9 mi 56.9 Speenhamland School Newbury · 1.1 mi 43.9 Falkland Primary School Newbury · 1.1 mi 49.2 St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Newbury · 1.2 mi 29.2 The Winchcombe School Newbury · 1.2 mi 33.2 Robert Sandilands Primary School and Nursery Newbury · 1.2 mi 69.9 Shaw-cum-Donnington C.E. Primary School Newbury · 1.6 mi 39.0

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

About St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery School

St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Newbury, West Berkshire, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. Around 188 pupils aged 3 to 7 attend the school.

91% of the families who made St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 21.3 pupils per teacher. St John the Evangelist CofE Infant and Nursery 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.