Ribbleton Avenue Infant School

Community school·Infant school Preston, Lancashire·PR1 5RU

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Ribbleton 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%

52 first choices, 58 places

First choices per place

0.90

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

131

any preference, for 58 places

First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8920220.8420230.9620240.9020250.902026

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

Every child who put Ribbleton 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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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: 229
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

35.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

59.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

14.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

4.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

15.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

18.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,958

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Ribbleton Avenue Methodist Junior School PRESTON · 0.0 mi 38.8 St Matthew's Church of England Primary Academy Preston · 0.4 mi 27.3 St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Preston Preston · 0.4 mi 63.5 St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Preston Preston · 0.5 mi 51.4 Fishwick Primary School Preston · 0.5 mi 34.4 St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Preston Preston · 0.5 mi 34.0 Holme Slack Community Primary School Preston · 0.6 mi 40.8 Deepdale Community Primary School Preston · 0.6 mi 43.8

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

Ribbleton Avenue Infant School at a glance

Located in Preston, Lancashire, Ribbleton Avenue Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 229 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Ribbleton Avenue Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 58 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 18.9 pupils per teacher. Ribbleton Avenue 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.