Shere CofE Aided Infant School

Voluntary aided school·Infant school Guildford, Surrey·GU5 9HB

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Shere CofE Aided Infant 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

100%

14 first choices, 14 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 14 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.08

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9020221.0020231.0020240.9220251.002026

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

Every child who put Shere CofE Aided 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: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 50
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England
Admissions: Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

6.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

8.0%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

30.0%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

0.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

8.9%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

25.5%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

13.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£12,606

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Clandon CofE Aided Primary School Guildford · 3.0 mi 22.8 Tillingbourne Junior School Guildford · 3.5 mi 55.1 Merrow Junior School Guildford · 3.6 mi 53.1 Wonersh and Shamley Green CofE Aided Primary School Guildford · 3.6 mi 73.8 St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School Guildford · 3.8 mi 63.5 Boxgrove Primary School Guildford · 4.0 mi 56.9 Holy Trinity, Guildford, CofE Aided Junior School Guildford · 4.3 mi 66.1 The Raleigh School Leatherhead · 4.3 mi 100.0

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

About Shere CofE Aided Infant School

Shere CofE Aided Infant School is a primary school in Guildford, Surrey, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. Around 50 pupils aged 2 to 7 attend the school.

Shere CofE Aided Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 14 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 8.9%. There are about 13.9 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 6% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Shere CofE Aided 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.