Lark Hall Infant & Nursery Academy

Academy converter·Infant school Tamworth, Staffordshire·B79 8EF

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Lark Hall Infant & Nursery Academy is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. 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%

18 first choices, 18 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 18 places

Last place offered lived

0.24 mi

straight line, 2025 intake · 380 m

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.27

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0020220.9620230.9620241.2720251.002026

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 2025 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it. In 2026 the school was not oversubscribed, so no distance limit applied.

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

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 82
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

40.2%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

8.5%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

11.0%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.2%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.5%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

11.7%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

21.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£9,256

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School Tamworth · 0.1 mi 29.9 Coton Green Primary School Tamworth · 0.3 mi 48.2 Flax Hill Junior Academy Tamworth · 0.4 mi 53.4 Moorgate Primary Academy Tamworth · 0.7 mi 59.4 St Leonard's CofE (A) Primary School Tamworth · 0.9 mi 55.8 Thomas Barnes Primary School Tamworth · 1.4 mi 39.0 Ankermoor Primary Academy Tamworth · 1.5 mi 52.6 William MacGregor Primary School Tamworth · 1.6 mi 40.7

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 Lark Hall Infant & Nursery Academy

Lark Hall Infant & Nursery Academy is a primary school in Tamworth, Staffordshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 82 pupils aged 3 to 7 attend the school.

Lark Hall Infant & Nursery Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 18 families who put it first were offered a place. The council's own allocation figures show the last child offered a place for 2025 lived 0.24 miles away in a straight line — that distance is not a fixed catchment and moves each year. Overall pupil absence was 5.5%. There are about 21.6 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. Lark Hall Infant & Nursery Academy 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.