Bushfield Road Infant School

Community school·Infant school Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire·DN16 1NA

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Bushfield Road 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%

51 first choices, 51 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

108

any preference, for 51 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9720221.0020231.0720240.9020251.002026

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

Every child who put Bushfield Road 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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Quality of education

Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Requires improvement

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Requires improvement

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 182
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

34.6%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

12.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

13.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.2%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

10.0%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

18.7

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,496

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Outwood Junior Academy Brumby Scunthorpe · 0.3 mi 52.9 Lincoln Gardens Primary School Scunthorpe · 0.7 mi 33.4 Priory Lane Community School Scunthorpe · 0.9 mi 51.3 Scunthorpe CofE Primary School Scunthorpe · 0.9 mi 32.8 St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary Voluntary Academy Scunthorpe · 1.0 mi 65.6 Oasis Academy Henderson Avenue Scunthorpe · 1.1 mi 42.5 Oasis Academy Parkwood Scunthorpe · 1.1 mi 58.2 Westcliffe Primary School Scunthorpe · 1.2 mi 42.4

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

Bushfield Road Infant School at a glance

Located in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, Bushfield Road Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 182 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Bushfield Road Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 51 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 18.7 pupils per teacher. Bushfield Road 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.