School profile
Horsted Infant School
Barberry Avenue, Chatham, Kent, ME5 9TF
Overview
Horsted Infant School is a state-funded school (academy converter) in Chatham, South East, for pupils aged 3–7. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Phase of education
- Primary
- Age range
- Ages 3–7
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- No
- School capacity
- 180
- URN
- 152589
Admissions
- Local authority
- Medway
- Academy trust or group
- THE BLUEBELL MAT
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official admissions data
Applications & demand
Preferences expressed by families through coordinated admissions, shown over time.
2026/27 admissions · Reception
- First preferences
- 52
- Total preferences
- 110
- Offers made
- 54
Times the school was named as a family's first preference.
All recorded preference positions for this school.
Offers recorded through coordinated admissions, not physical capacity.
First preferences compared with offers
0.96 first preferences per offer
52 first preferences and 54 offers were recorded for 2026/27.
What does this mean?
This is the Department for Education's own published comparison of first preferences with total offers recorded. It indicates the level of requests made through coordinated admissions. Offers are not necessarily the school's maximum capacity, admissions arrangements vary between local authorities, the figure is not a measure of school quality, and it should not be used on its own to judge the likelihood of gaining a place.
First preferences over time
Latest five available admissions years. Missing years are not estimated.
Admissions history
| Admissions year | First preferences | Total preferences | Offers made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 52 | 110 | 54 |
| 2025/26 | 46 | 121 | 51 |
| 2024/25 | 53 | 143 | 56 |
| 2023/24 | 72 | 158 | 60 |
| 2022/23 | 72 | 160 | 59 |
Source: Department for Education · Applications and offers data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 10 October 2023 · Published 27 November 2023
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Good
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Early years provision (where applicable)
- Requires improvement
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 6 July 2022 · Published 21 September 2022
Outcome: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- Barberry Avenue, Chatham, Kent, ME5 9TF
- Local authority
- Medway
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