Beechcroft Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Swindon
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.048 miles
Published by Swindon Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
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Beechcroft Infant School is a primary school in Swindon for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 March 2024. Swindon has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
Beechcroft 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 | 3.048 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 3.048 miles away, the 12th longest of 57 Swindon primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.86 miles).
- Reception 2026 had 65 first-choice applications for 67 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 14.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Swindon is 22.5%.
- There are 18.6 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Swindon is 21.8.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Swindon schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Beechcroft Road, Upper Stratton, Beechcroft Infants School, Swindon, SN2 7QE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Swindon
- Pupils on roll
- 219 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 March 2024
Strengths
- “The school is welcoming, inclusive and nurturing.”
- “The school’s values of ‘ready, respectful and safe’ underpin all that it does.”
- “The school has a tangible ‘family feel’.”
To improve
- “Assessment is well-established for core subjects, but less developed in some foundation subjects.”
- “However, in some subjects this is not yet effective.”
- “The information is not used well in all subjects so as to improve the curriculum to address misconceptions and gaps in knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 65 first-preference applications, 67 offers in total, 65 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 Swindon.
- St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Swindon 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ruskin Junior School 0.5 mi Good
- Seven Fields Primary School 0.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Grange Infants' School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Gorse Hill Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Greenmeadow Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Grange Junior School 1.1 mi Good
- Abbey Meads Community Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published