South Stanley Infant and Nursery School

Academy converter·Infant school Stanley, County Durham·DH9 6PZ

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

South Stanley Infant and Nursery School is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. 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%

25 first choices, 25 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 25 places

First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0020221.0020231.0020241.0020251.002026

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

Every child who put South Stanley 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: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 114
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

63.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

3.5%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

16.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

0.9%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.1%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

12.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

14.3

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,946

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

South Stanley Junior School Stanley · 0.0 mi 60.9 St Mary's Catholic Primary School, South Moor Stanley · 0.3 mi 21.3 Greenland Community Primary School Stanley · 0.5 mi 61.6 St Joseph's Catholic Primary, Stanley Stanley · 0.6 mi 55.0 Stanley Burnside Primary School Stanley · 0.6 mi 40.3 Bloemfontein Primary School Stanley · 0.7 mi 43.6 East Stanley School Stanley · 0.8 mi 43.3 Shield Row Primary School Stanley · 1.1 mi 42.2

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

South Stanley Infant and Nursery School is a primary school serving Stanley, County Durham, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 114 pupils aged 2 to 7 on roll.

South Stanley Infant and Nursery School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 25 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.1%. There are about 14.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 64% 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. South Stanley 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.