Hillside Infant School
Primary · Northwood · HA6 1RX
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 18 October 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
201 pupils · 80% of 252 capacity
- School type
- Foundation school
- Age range
- 3–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 16.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 63.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 9.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.7% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.hillsideinfant.org.uk
- URN
- 102434
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.98 first-choice applications per place45 places offered · 44 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
The school offered a place to every applicant in recent years. Distance was not needed to decide places.
Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
82% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 18% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 17 October 2023: School remains Good
- 9 May 2018: Good
- 4 July 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 19 January 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.