St Stephen's Infant School
Primary · Canterbury · CT2 7AB
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 23 January 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
263 pupils · 97% of 270 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 5–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 33% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 33.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2% of pupils
- URN
- 148501
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.91 first-choice applications per place69 places offered · 63 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)
80% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 20% 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.
Inspection history since 2015
- 23 January 2024: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.