Caister Infant With Nursery School

Community school·Infant school Great Yarmouth, Norfolk·NR30 5ET

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Caister Infant With Nursery School is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. 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

85%

68 first choices, 60 places

First choices per place

1.13

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 60 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.16

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9820220.9720231.0020240.9720251.132026

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

Norfolk does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Caister Infant With Nursery School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 294
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

27.6%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

1.7%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

14.3%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.1%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.5%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

19.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,446

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Caister Junior School Great Yarmouth · 0.0 mi 52.0 North Denes Primary School and Nursery Great Yarmouth · 1.5 mi 31.2 Northgate Primary School Great Yarmouth · 2.2 mi 24.0 Ormesby Village Junior School Great Yarmouth · 2.6 mi 59.5 St Nicholas Priory CofE VA Primary School and Nursery Great Yarmouth · 2.7 mi 39.0 Cobholm Primary Academy Great Yarmouth · 2.9 mi 38.4 St. George's Primary School & St. George's Nursery School, Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth · 3.2 mi 23.0 Southtown Primary School Great Yarmouth · 3.2 mi 28.0

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

Caister Infant With Nursery School is a primary school serving Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 294 pupils aged 2 to 7 on roll.

Competition for places is real here - 85% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (68 first choices for 60 places). Overall pupil absence was 6.5%. There are about 19.9 pupils per teacher. Caister Infant With Nursery 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.