Widcombe Infant School

Academy converter·Infant school Bath and North East Somerset·BA2 4JG

School type

Infant school

Ages 5–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Widcombe 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

76%

76 first choices, 60 places

First choices per place

1.27

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

174

any preference, for 60 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10

00.511.5

1 per place

1.1520220.9220230.9820241.1720251.272026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Widcombe Infant School yet. Bath and North East Somerset 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

New framework · Last inspection: 06/01/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement

Expected standard

Leadership and governance

Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching

Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour

Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Strong standard

Inclusion

Strong standard

Safeguarding standards

Met

Early years

Expected standard

School profile

Age range: 5–7
Pupils on roll: 178
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

11.2%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

21.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

6.2%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.2%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

3.3%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

3.3%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

18.2

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,011

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Widcombe CofE Junior School Bath · 0.0 mi 65.4 Bathwick St Mary Church School Bath · 0.8 mi 56.2 St Andrew's Church School Bath · 0.9 mi 49.2 St John's Catholic Primary School Bath · 1.0 mi 57.8 Moorlands Junior School Bath · 1.1 mi 38.1 St Stephens Church School Bath · 1.3 mi 69.5 Combe Down CofE Primary School Bath · 1.3 mi 49.1 Oldfield Park Junior School Bath · 1.4 mi 53.8

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

Widcombe Infant School at a glance

Located in Bath and North East Somerset, Widcombe Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 178 pupils aged 5 to 7. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' when it was last inspected in January 2026.

Competition for places is real here - 76% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (76 first choices for 60 places). Overall pupil absence was 3.3%. There are about 18.2 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 11% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. 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.