Heather Avenue Infant School

Academy converter·Infant school Norwich, Norfolk·NR6 6LT

School type

Infant school

Ages 5–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Heather Avenue 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

90%

29 first choices, 27 places

First choices per place

1.07

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 27 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.07

00.511.5

1 per place

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

Norfolk does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Heather Avenue Infant School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Outstanding

School profile

Age range: 5–7
Pupils on roll: 114
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

16.7%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

22.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

3.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

7.9%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.3%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

25.0%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

16.8

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£13,763

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Catton Grove Primary School Norwich · 0.5 mi 37.4 Firside Junior School Norwich · 0.5 mi 47.3 Kinsale Junior School Norwich · 0.6 mi 41.0 Mile Cross Primary School Norwich · 0.6 mi 52.9 Old Catton CofE VC Junior School Norwich · 1.2 mi 48.5 Angel Road Junior School Norwich · 1.4 mi 48.9 White Woman Lane Junior School Norwich · 1.5 mi 53.2 Wensum Junior School Norwich · 1.6 mi 50.4

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

About Heather Avenue Infant School

Heather Avenue Infant School is a primary school in Norwich, Norfolk, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 114 pupils aged 5 to 7 attend the school.

Heather Avenue Infant School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 29 first choices for 27 places. Overall pupil absence was 7.3%. There are about 16.8 pupils per teacher. Heather Avenue 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.