Newdigate CofE Endowed Aided Infant School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 2–7 · Dorking, 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.
Newdigate CofE Endowed Aided Infant School is a primary school in Dorking, Surrey for ages 2–7 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 September 2023. Surrey has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Newdigate CofE Endowed Aided 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
- Reception 2026 drew 25 first-choice applications for 26 offers; 24 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (4%) was not offered a place.
- Families living outside Surrey made 6 of the 48 Reception 2026 applications (13%), and 2 offers went to them.
- There are 74 pupils on roll (January 2026 school census), with 19.6 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Surrey is 21.9.
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
- Village Street, Newdigate, Dorking, RH5 5DJ
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Surrey
- Pupils on roll
- 74 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at Newdigate and love going to school.”
- “The school’s strong Christian ethos of ‘In God’s hands we learn and grow’ drives everything the school does.”
- “From children’s first day in Reception, they feel part of a ‘family’.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, some of the steps pupils need to take have not been identified precisely enough.”
- “This means some pupils do not achieve as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 25 first-preference applications, 26 offers in total, 24 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.
- The Weald CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Good
- Scott-Broadwood CofE Infant School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Charlwood Village Primary School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary School 3.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- North Downs Primary School 4.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Paul's CofE Primary School 4.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Powell Corderoy Primary School 4.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Westvale Park Primary Academy 4.8 mi Good Last distance published