Herne Bay Infant School
Ofsted: Good
Score
C63
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Herne Bay, CT6 5SH
- Distance
- 0.1km away
Herne Bay Junior School
Kings Road, Herne Bay, CT6 5DA
Local ranking406th of 450 primary schools in Kent
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Primary
Phase
500
Capacity
7-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 17 June 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 34.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 2.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 56.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 49.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 40.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 44.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 101.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 98.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 99.0
- Cohort Size
- 110
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 391
- Boys
- 192 (49%)
- Girls
- 199 (51%)
- Capacity
- 500 (78% full)
- SEND
- 17.4%
- FSM Eligible
- 46.3%
- EAL
- 10.5%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 3.1%
- SEN Support
- 14.3%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 20.1:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.4
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,152/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.2% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 22.7% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 80.3%
- White Other: 4.7%
- Mixed Other: 4.2%
- Black African: 3.4%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.3%
- Asian Indian: 1.3%
- Other: 1.3%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 1.0%
80.3%
White British
4.7%
White Other
4.2%
Mixed Other
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Kings Road
Herne Bay, South East
Administrative
- URN
- 118852
- UKPRN
- 10069646
- Establishment No.
- 5206
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