Walter Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Wokingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Not published
From Wokingham Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2020–2024 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Walter Infant School is a primary school in Wokingham for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 3 December 2024. Wokingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
Walter 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 2025 | Not published |
| Reception 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2023 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2022 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2021 | 1.206 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 1.409 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception, every applicant was offered a place in 2024, but places ran out (a last distance was published) in 2 of the 4 earlier years.
- The 2026 Reception entry had 55 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- 8.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 11.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wokingham.
- There are 20.4 pupils per teacher, compared with a middle figure of 21.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wokingham.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wokingham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Murray Road, Wokingham, RG41 2TA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Wokingham
- Pupils on roll
- 221 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 3 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils find this school inspirational.”
- “They are captivated by the child-friendly environment, knowledgeable teachers and Walter, the school therapy dog and friend to all.”
- “Everything about this school is deliberately designed to meet the needs of its pupils – and it does.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 55 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 55 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 Wokingham.
- St Paul's CofE Junior School 0.1 mi Good
- Windmill Primary School and Nursery 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Hawthorns Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Emmbrook Infant School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Emmbrook Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Cecilia's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Wescott Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published