Beighton Nursery Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Sheffield
Last distance offered · Reception 2020
0.614 miles
Published by Sheffield City Council · offers on 16 April 2020
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Beighton Nursery Infant School is a primary school in Sheffield for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 June 2024. Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 entry.
Beighton Nursery 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 2020 | 0.614 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 there were 69 first-choice applications for 74 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 25th lowest of 111 Sheffield primary schools.
- In 2020, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.614 miles from the school.
- Of its pupils, 15.1% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sheffield.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sheffield schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- School Road, Beighton, Sheffield, S20 1EG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 251 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils feel proud to attend Beighton Nursery Infant School.”
- “They are happy and enjoy their learning.”
- “The school is successful in its aim to inspire happy, healthy and successful lives.”
To improve
- “However, the Year 2 curriculum for English does not build progressively enough from the phonics programme of study.”
- “Teachers do not support pupils to continue to gain early writing knowledge and develop their reading fluency.”
- “As a result, some pupils do not achieve as well as they should in reading and writing.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 69 first-preference applications, 74 offers in total, 69 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 Sheffield.
- Brook House Junior 0.1 mi Good
- Reignhead Primary School 0.3 mi Some aspects not as strong
- Waterthorpe Infant School 0.9 mi Good
- Emmanuel Anglican/Methodist Junior School 1.0 mi School remains Good
- Shortbrook Primary School 1.2 mi Good
- Halfway Nursery Infant School 1.3 mi School remains Good
- Rainbow Forge Primary Academy 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Brunswick Community Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published