Featherby Infant and Nursery School

Academy converter·Infant school Gillingham, Medway·ME8 6PD

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Featherby 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%

63 first choices, 70 places

First choices per place

0.90

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

129

any preference, for 70 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8920220.9220230.9420240.9620250.902026

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

Every child who put Featherby 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: 303
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

34.7%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

5.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

22.4%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.2%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

20.7%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

17.9

Typical primary: 20.7

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

Nearby primary schools

Featherby Junior School Gillingham · 0.1 mi 45.1 Twydall Primary School and Nursery Gillingham · 0.4 mi 36.1 St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School Gillingham · 0.4 mi 53.9 The Academy of Woodlands Gillingham · 0.5 mi 53.0 Barnsole Primary School Gillingham · 0.9 mi 33.8 Thames View Primary School Gillingham · 1.0 mi 55.5 Napier Community Primary and Nursery Academy Gillingham · 1.1 mi 72.1 St Mary's Catholic Primary School Gillingham · 1.2 mi 39.4

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

School overview

Featherby Infant and Nursery School is a primary school serving Gillingham, Medway, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 303 pupils aged 3 to 7 on roll.

Featherby Infant and Nursery School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 63 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 17.9 pupils per teacher. Featherby 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.