Queensway Infant Academy

Academy sponsor led·Infant school Thetford, Norfolk·IP24 3DR

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Queensway Infant Academy is an infant school for pupils aged 4–7. 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%

22 first choices, 27 places

First choices per place

0.81

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 27 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06

00.511.5

1 per place

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

Every child who put Queensway Infant Academy 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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Overall effectiveness

Requires improvement

Quality of education

Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Requires improvement

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Requires improvement

School profile

Age range: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 111
Gender: Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

52.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

23.4%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

29.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

0.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

8.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

31.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

13.8

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,316

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Queensway Junior Academy Thetford · 0.1 mi 36.6 Redcastle Family School Thetford · 0.5 mi 45.5 Norwich Road Academy Thetford · 0.7 mi 43.5 The Bishop's Church of England Primary Academy Thetford · 0.9 mi 17.6 Drake Primary School Thetford · 1.2 mi 26.0 Admirals Academy Thetford · 1.3 mi 45.2 Weeting Church of England Primary School Brandon · 6.8 mi 30.6

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

Queensway Infant Academy is a primary school serving Thetford, Norfolk, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. It has 111 pupils aged 4 to 7 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Queensway Infant Academy 'Requires improvement'.

Queensway Infant Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 22 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 8.6%. There are about 13.8 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 52% 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. If you are considering Queensway Infant Academy, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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.