Banks Lane Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Stockport
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.992 miles
Published by Stockport Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2022–2026 (miles)
Banks Lane Infant School is a primary school in Stockport for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 15 November 2023. Stockport has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Banks Lane Infant School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.992 mi |
| Reception 2025 | Not published |
| Reception 2024 | 0.571 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 1.745 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 0.463 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.992 miles away, the 25th shortest of 78 Stockport primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- Its 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2024 and in 2022, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 77 first-choice applications for 86 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 9 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- 17.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Stockport.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Stockport schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hempshaw Lane, Offerton, Stockport, SK1 4PR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Stockport
- Pupils on roll
- 274 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 15 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, and children in the early years, enjoy attending Banks Lane Infant School.”
- “They benefit from the warm and nurturing relationships that staff have with them.”
- “Pupils are caring and kind towards one another.”
To improve
- “Despite the overall strengths in the curriculum, in one or two subjects the school has not finalised the curriculum content in full.”
- “In these subjects, new knowledge and information are sometimes not delivered in the best possible order.”
- “This means that, on occasion, teachers are sometimes not clear on exactly what knowledge they need to teach to pupils and when.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 77 first-preference applications, 86 offers in total, 77 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Stockport.
- Banks Lane Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- St Thomas' Church of England Primary School Stockport 0.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St George's Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Vernon Park Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cale Green Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fairway Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published