Race Leys Infant School

Community school·Infant school Bedworth, Warwickshire·CV12 8AD

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Race Leys Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 4–7. 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%

36 first choices, 43 places

First choices per place

0.84

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

102

any preference, for 43 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.16

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9520221.0220231.0020241.0020250.842026

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

Every child who put Race Leys 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

New framework · Last inspection: 13/01/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement

Expected standard

Leadership and governance

Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching

Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour

Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Expected standard

Inclusion

Strong standard

Safeguarding standards

Met

Early years

Expected standard

School profile

Age range: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 144
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

40.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

6.3%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

31.2%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

8.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

24.5%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.7

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,775

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St Francis Catholic Academy Bedworth · 0.2 mi 58.5 Race Leys Junior School Bedworth · 0.2 mi 71.3 The Canons C of E Primary School Bedworth · 0.4 mi 59.2 St Michael's Church of England Academy Bedworth · 0.5 mi 42.4 All Saints Bedworth CofE Academy Bedworth · 0.6 mi 41.0 Exhall Junior School Warwickshire · 1.1 mi 43.0 Goodyers End Primary School Bedworth · 1.2 mi 42.5 Newdigate Primary and Nursery School Bedworth · 1.5 mi 41.4

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

Race Leys Infant School at a glance

Located in Bedworth, Warwickshire, Race Leys Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 144 pupils aged 4 to 7. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' when it was last inspected in January 2026.

Race Leys Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 36 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 8.0%. There are about 19.7 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 40% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. If you are considering Race Leys Infant School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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.