Winterbourne Nursery and Infants' School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Thornton Heath, Croydon
Winterbourne Nursery and Infants' School is a primary school in Thornton Heath, Croydon for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 September 2023. Croydon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
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Key facts
- Address
- Winterbourne Road, Thornton Heath, CR7 7QT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Sector
- See recorded establishment type
- Council
- Croydon
- Pupils on roll
- 372 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 September 2023
Strengths
- “This is a welcoming school community.”
- “Staff help pupils to settle in quickly and make new friends when they join the school.”
- “Staff and pupils build up warm and trusting professional relationships.”
To improve
- “Where curriculum thinking is not as carefully thought through, the school’s curriculum thinking has not identified as clearly what pupils need to know and the order in which they should learn it.”
- “This means that pupils are sometimes set tasks to do that focus more on an activity than on the essential knowledge that pupils need to learn from it.”
- “The school typically checks regularly what pupils know and remember, but where key knowledge is less clearly sequenced gaps in pupils’ knowledge are not picked up routinely and addressed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 October 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 75 first-preference applications, 83 offers in total, 75 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Last distance offered and catchment
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- Last distance offered for Reception 2023 to 2026, as Croydon published it, drawn on the map
- Earlier years of applications and offers
- Crime, sold prices, broadband and transport around the school
A last distance offered describes one past year and is not a catchment or a promise of a place. Check with the council before you apply.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Croydon.
- Winterbourne Boys' Academy 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Winterbourne Junior Girls' School 0.0 mi Good
- Paxton Academy Sports And Science 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Gonville Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Ecclesbourne Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Beulah Infants' School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Beulah Junior School 0.8 mi Requires improvement