The Orchard Infant School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 5–7 · East Molesey, Surrey
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Surrey County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2024–2026 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
The Orchard Infant School is a primary school in East Molesey, Surrey for ages 5–7 (foundation school). Surrey has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
The Orchard 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, Reception entry had 77 first-choice applications for 87 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as was the case at 141 of the 254 other Surrey primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- The school has 22.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.4 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Surrey.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Surrey schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Bridge Road, East Molesey, KT8 9HT
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Surrey
- Pupils on roll
- 251 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 6 May 2026
Strengths
- “This is a school where pupils feel safe, valued and happy to belong.”
- “Pupils enjoy learning and are curious about new topics.”
- “They understand that learning builds over time, for example explaining how small steps, such as learning sounds, help them to write words, then sentences and eventually create stories.”
To improve
- “While leaders monitor some areas of the curriculum in depth, oversight of some subjects in the wider curriculum is less well developed, limiting leaders’ ability to identify and address improvement priorities in all subjects.”
- “At times, especially during some independent activities, staff do not always make the most of opportunities to extend children’s learning further.”
- “Governors are refining how they document the challenge they provide to leaders to evidence its effectiveness more consistently.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 June 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 77 first-preference applications, 87 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 Surrey.
- St Lawrence CofE Aided Junior School, East Molesey 0.4 mi School remains Good
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Paul's Catholic Primary School, Thames Ditton 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thames Ditton Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Chandlers Field Primary Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thames Ditton Junior School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Hurst Park Primary Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cranmere Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published