Alexandra Infant School
Primary · Beckenham · BR3 1JG
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 13 September 2023
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197 pupils · 99% of 198 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 5–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 3.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 29.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 10.6% of pupils
- URN
- 140451
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.55 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 93 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed
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
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry) lived within 0.339 miles
measured in a straight line.
Cutoff distance by entry year
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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)
90% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 10% 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, academy 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
- 12 September 2023: School remains Good
- 9 May 2018: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.