Cockton Hill Infant School

Community school·Infant school Bishop Auckland, County Durham·DL14 6HW

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Cockton Hill 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%

36 first choices, 37 places

First choices per place

0.97

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 37 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9420220.9420230.9820241.0020250.972026

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

Every child who put Cockton Hill 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).

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 170
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

50.6%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

6.5%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

18.2%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

0.6%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

16.8%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

18.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,839

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Cockton Hill Junior School Bishop Auckland · 0.0 mi 35.1 St Andrew's Academy Bishop Auckland · 0.3 mi 29.9 St Anne's CofE Primary School Bishop Auckland · 0.5 mi 59.1 St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Bishop Auckland Bishop Auckland · 0.6 mi 34.2 Etherley Lane Primary School Bishop Auckland · 0.6 mi 45.8 Woodhouse Primary Academy Bishop Auckland · 0.8 mi 26.6 Prince Bishops Community Primary School Bishop Auckland · 1.1 mi 43.0 Thornhill Primary School Shildon · 1.5 mi 83.8

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

Cockton Hill Infant School at a glance

Located in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, Cockton Hill Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 170 pupils aged 2 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Cockton Hill Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 37 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 18.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 51% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Cockton Hill 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.