Twin Sails Infant and Nursery School

Academy converter·Infant school Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole·BH15 4AX

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Twin Sails Infant and Nursery School 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%

81 first choices, 85 places

First choices per place

0.95

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

125

any preference, for 85 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9920220.9520230.9820240.9520250.952026

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

Every child who put Twin Sails Infant and Nursery 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: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 366
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

17.2%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

13.1%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

9.0%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.5%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

7.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

22.3

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,205

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Hamworthy Park Junior School Poole · 0.1 mi 37.2 Bayside Academy POOLE · 1.2 mi 39.0 Oakdale Junior School Poole · 1.3 mi 51.4 Longfleet Church of England Primary School Poole · 1.5 mi 50.7 St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Poole Poole · 1.8 mi 50.5 Ocean Academy Poole Poole · 2.0 mi 60.5 Canford Heath Junior School Poole · 2.2 mi 57.8 Baden-Powell and St Peter's Church of England Junior School Poole · 2.4 mi 63.8

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

Twin Sails Infant and Nursery School at a glance

Located in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Twin Sails Infant and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 366 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Twin Sails Infant and Nursery School their first choice was offered one of its 85 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 22.3 pupils per teacher. Twin Sails Infant and Nursery 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.