Arden Forest Infant School

Community school·Infant school Bedworth, Warwickshire·CV12 9RT

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Arden Forest 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

97%

39 first choices, 45 places

First choices per place

0.87

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 45 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.04

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0720220.9820230.9820240.9120250.872026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Arden Forest Infant School yet. Warwickshire 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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Overall effectiveness

Good

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: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 159
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

13.2%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

4.4%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

14.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

5.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

8.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

23.7

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,383

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St James' CofE Academy Bedworth · 0.3 mi 55.1 St Michael's Church of England Academy Bedworth · 1.3 mi 42.4 All Saints Bedworth CofE Academy Bedworth · 1.4 mi 41.0 Chetwynd Junior School Nuneaton · 1.5 mi 45.4 St Francis Catholic Academy Bedworth · 1.6 mi 58.5 The Canons C of E Primary School Bedworth · 2.0 mi 59.2 Race Leys Junior School Bedworth · 2.0 mi 71.3 All Saints CofE Primary School and Nursery, Nuneaton Nuneaton · 2.4 mi 30.2

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

Arden Forest Infant School at a glance

Located in Bedworth, Warwickshire, Arden Forest Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 159 pupils aged 4 to 7. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection.

97% of the families who made Arden Forest Infant School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 4.6%. There are about 23.7 pupils per teacher. When comparing schools, it is still worth visiting in person to see whether the atmosphere and approach suit your child. 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.