Bottesford Infant School

Community school·Infant school Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire·DN16 3PB

School type

Infant school

Ages 5–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Bottesford Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 5–7. 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

84%

82 first choices, 70 places

First choices per place

1.17

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

187

any preference, for 70 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.06

00.511.5

1 per place

1.1920220.9920230.9420241.1120251.172026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Bottesford Infant School yet. North Lincolnshire does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Outstanding

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Outstanding

School profile

Age range: 5–7
Pupils on roll: 208
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

9.1%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

2.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

12.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

7.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

22.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,081

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Bottesford Junior School Scunthorpe · 0.0 mi 44.0 Leys Farm Junior School Scunthorpe · 0.5 mi 38.0 Oakfield Primary School Scunthorpe · 0.6 mi 88.0 Willoughby Road Primary Academy Scunthorpe · 0.7 mi 50.6 Holme Valley Primary School Scunthorpe · 0.7 mi 80.7 The Grange Primary School Scunthorpe · 1.0 mi 35.4 Priory Lane Community School Scunthorpe · 1.2 mi 51.3 Lincoln Gardens Primary School Scunthorpe · 1.3 mi 33.4

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

Bottesford Infant School at a glance

Located in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, Bottesford Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 208 pupils aged 5 to 7.

Competition for places is real here - 84% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (82 first choices for 70 places). Overall pupil absence was 4.0%. There are about 22.6 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 9% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Bottesford 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.