Old Town Infant School and Nursery

Academy converter·Infant school Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole·BH15 1QB

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Old Town Infant School and Nursery 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%

30 first choices, 32 places

First choices per place

0.94

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 32 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9720220.9820231.0020241.0020250.942026

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

Every child who put Old Town Infant School and Nursery 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: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 175
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

39.4%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

35.4%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

14.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

7.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

14.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

23.5

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£10,890

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Longfleet Church of England Primary School Poole · 0.8 mi 50.7 Oakdale Junior School Poole · 1.0 mi 51.4 Hamworthy Park Junior School Poole · 1.0 mi 37.2 St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Poole Poole · 1.1 mi 50.5 Ocean Academy Poole Poole · 1.2 mi 60.5 Baden-Powell and St Peter's Church of England Junior School Poole · 1.4 mi 63.8 Canford Heath Junior School Poole · 1.8 mi 57.8 Bayside Academy POOLE · 2.0 mi 39.0

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

Old Town Infant School and Nursery at a glance

Located in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Old Town Infant School and Nursery is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 175 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Old Town Infant School and Nursery their first choice was offered one of its 32 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 23.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 39% 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. Old Town Infant School and Nursery 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.