Thomas A Becket Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Worthing, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Thomas A Becket Infant School is a primary school in Worthing, West Sussex for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 11 December 2024. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Thomas A Becket 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 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for Reception in 2026 was offered a place, though places ran out (a last distance was published) in all 4 earlier years.
- Reception 2026 had 134 first-choice applications for 138 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 7.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 15.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Sussex.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Sussex schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Pelham Road, Worthing, BN13 1JB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 473 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 11 December 2024
Strengths
- “This is a happy and successful school with an exceptionally strong sense of community.”
- “Parents and carers describe how their children ‘thrive’ and are ‘nurtured’ as a result of the strong relationships that exist within and beyond the school gates.”
- “Despite being a large infant school, this is still a tight knit community in which pupils are known well.”
To improve
- “However, this work is in its early stages.”
- “While the vocabulary has been carefully mapped out, the school has not yet embedded its systematic approach to its teaching of this vocabulary.”
- “This limits pupils’ ability to use more complex, subject specific vocabulary accurately or apply it effectively in their learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 134 first-preference applications, 138 offers in total, 134 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 West Sussex.
- Thomas A Becket Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
- Durrington Junior School 0.7 mi Good
- Durrington Infant School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, Worthing 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Broadwater CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Elm Grove Primary School, Worthing 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Orchards Infant School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Orchards Junior School 1.0 mi School remains Good