Acre Rigg Infant School

Community school·Infant school Peterlee, County Durham·SR8 2DU

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Acre Rigg 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%

38 first choices, 40 places

First choices per place

0.95

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 40 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0020221.0020230.8720240.9820250.952026

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

Every child who put Acre Rigg 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: 259
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

52.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

3.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

23.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.7%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.2%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

13.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

21.0

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,481

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Acre Rigg Academy Peterlee · 0.0 mi 34.0 Howletch Lane Primary School Peterlee · 0.6 mi 40.3 Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School Peterlee · 0.7 mi 58.6 Seascape Primary School Peterlee · 0.9 mi 4.6 Shotton Hall Primary School Peterlee · 1.2 mi 67.3 Easington CofE Primary School Peterlee · 1.2 mi 59.8 Easington Colliery Primary School Peterlee · 1.4 mi 55.0 Dene House Primary School Peterlee · 1.4 mi 48.8

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

School overview

Acre Rigg Infant School is a primary school serving Peterlee, County Durham, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 259 pupils aged 2 to 7 on roll.

Acre Rigg Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 38 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 21.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 53% 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. Acre Rigg 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.