St Clement's and St John's Church of England Infant School

Academy converter·Infant school Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole·BH1 4DZ

School type

Infant school

Ages 5–7

Key Stage 2 performance

St Clement's and St John's Church of England 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

100%

38 first choices, 41 places

First choices per place

0.93

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

118

any preference, for 41 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.07

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9120220.9320230.9220240.8620250.932026

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

Every child who put St Clement's and St John's Church of England 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).

School profile

Age range: 5–7
Pupils on roll: 189
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

40.2%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

61.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

18.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.7%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

22.2%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

12.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,735

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Bethany Church of England Junior School Bournemouth · 0.2 mi 25.1 King's Park Academy Bournemouth · 0.5 mi 49.2 Malmesbury Park Primary School Bournemouth · 0.6 mi 35.5 Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School Bournemouth · 0.8 mi 64.6 Avonwood Primary School Bournemouth · 1.0 mi 82.6 St James' Church of England Primary Academy Bournemouth · 1.1 mi 64.0 Pokesdown Community Primary School Bournemouth · 1.1 mi 55.2 Queen's Park Academy Bournemouth · 1.4 mi 62.8

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

St Clement's and St John's Church of England Infant School is a primary school serving Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 189 pupils aged 5 to 7 on roll.

St Clement's and St John's Church of England Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 38 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.6%. There are about 12.9 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. St Clement's and St John's Church of England 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.