Woodfield Infant School & Nursery

Academy converter·Infant school Shrewsbury, Shropshire·SY3 8LU

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Woodfield Infant School & Nursery 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, 67 places

First choices per place

0.94

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

157

any preference, for 67 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0320220.8720230.9920240.9220250.942026

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

Every child who put Woodfield Infant School & Nursery 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).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Outstanding

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Outstanding

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 293
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

6.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

10.2%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

7.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

4.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.5%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

8.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

23.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,038

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St George's Junior School Shrewsbury · 0.0 mi 54.7 Radbrook Primary School Shrewsbury · 0.8 mi 32.5 Coleham Primary School Shrewsbury · 1.1 mi 62.8 Oxon CofE Primary School Shrewsbury · 1.1 mi 56.2 Greenfields Primary School Shrewsbury · 1.3 mi 67.8 Meole Brace Church of England Primary School and Nursery Shrewsbury · 1.5 mi 53.7 Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School and Nursery Shrewsbury · 1.7 mi 38.0 The Martin Wilson School Shrewsbury · 1.7 mi 31.2

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

Woodfield Infant School & Nursery at a glance

Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Woodfield Infant School & Nursery is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 293 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Woodfield Infant School & Nursery their first choice was offered one of its 67 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 23.6 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 6% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Woodfield Infant School & Nursery 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.