Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery

Community school·Infant school Colchester, Essex·CO4 3JP

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery 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

100%

35 first choices, 36 places

First choices per place

0.97

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 36 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9420221.0020230.9420240.9520250.972026

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

Every child who put Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery 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

Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Requires improvement

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 171
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

32.8%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

22.2%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

20.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

9.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

15.6%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.5

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£10,653

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Hazelmere Junior School Colchester · 0.0 mi 27.0 Unity Primary Academy Colchester · 0.3 mi 54.8 Roach Vale Primary School Colchester · 0.4 mi 37.1 Parsons Heath Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Colchester · 0.4 mi 37.6 Willow Brook Primary School and Nursery Colchester · 0.5 mi 32.5 Friars Grove Primary School Colchester · 0.7 mi 46.5 St James the Great Church of England Primary School Colchester · 1.1 mi 40.5 St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Colchester COLCHESTER · 1.2 mi 65.5

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 Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery

Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Colchester, Essex, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 171 pupils aged 4 to 7 attend the school.

Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 35 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 19.5 pupils per teacher. Hazelmere Infant School and Nursery 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.