Mowden Infant School

Academy converter·Infant school Darlington·DL3 9QG

School type

Infant school

Ages 5–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Mowden Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 5–7. 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

80%

73 first choices, 59 places

First choices per place

1.24

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

175

any preference, for 59 places

Last place offered lived

1.12 mi

straight line, 2026 intake · 1806 m

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.24

00.511.5

1 per place

1.1720221.2320230.8820241.0020251.242026

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

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2026 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.

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

School profile

Age range: 5–7
Pupils on roll: 176
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

8.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

3.4%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

4.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.7%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.2%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

9.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.8

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£3,148

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Mowden Junior School Darlington · 0.2 mi 65.2 St Mary's Cockerton Church of England Primary School Darlington · 0.5 mi 27.6 Holy Family Catholic Primary School Darlington · 0.6 mi 65.2 Abbey Junior School Darlington · 0.6 mi 59.4 Mount Pleasant Primary School Darlington · 0.8 mi 63.4 Reid Street Primary School Darlington · 1.0 mi 45.2 St Augustine's Catholic Primary School Darlington · 1.2 mi 53.2 West Park Academy Darlington · 1.2 mi 64.6

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

Mowden Infant School is a primary school serving Darlington, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 176 pupils aged 5 to 7 on roll.

Mowden Infant School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 73 first choices for 59 places. In 2026 the furthest child offered a place lived 1.12 miles from the school in a straight line, according to the council's published allocation figures; the distance changes every year with demand. Overall pupil absence was 4.2%. There are about 19.8 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 8% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Mowden 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.