Queen Mary Avenue Infant School

Community school·Infant school Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire·DN35 7SY

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Queen Mary Avenue Infant 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

100%

54 first choices, 54 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 54 places

First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9820220.9820231.0020241.0020251.002026

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

Every child who put Queen Mary Avenue 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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Overall effectiveness

Good

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: 309
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

60.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

9.1%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

15.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

7.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.2%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

21.8%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

22.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,793

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

William Barcroft Junior School Cleethorpes · 0.1 mi 58.6 Elliston Primary Academy Cleethopres · 0.3 mi 57.3 Old Clee Primary Academy Grimsby · 0.5 mi 70.3 Reynolds Primary Academy Cleethorpes · 0.5 mi 44.4 Bursar Primary Academy Cleethorpes · 0.6 mi 45.8 Weelsby Academy Grimsby · 0.7 mi 59.2 Saint Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy Grimsby · 0.8 mi 26.6 Welholme Academy Grimsby · 0.9 mi 39.2

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

Queen Mary Avenue Infant School is a primary school serving Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 309 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Queen Mary Avenue Infant School 'Good'.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Queen Mary Avenue Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 54 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 22.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 60% 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. When comparing schools, it is still worth visiting in person to see whether the atmosphere and approach suit your child. 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.