Arden Forest Infant School
Primary · Bedworth · CV12 9RT
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 8 November 2022
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161 pupils · 89% of 180 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 14.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 4.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 14.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 5% of pupils
- URN
- 130893
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.87 first-choice applications per place45 places offered · 39 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.
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)
73% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 27% 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
- 8 November 2022: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.