Abbey Infants' School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · Darlington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Darlington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Abbey Infants' School is a primary school in Darlington for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 16 November 2022. Darlington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Abbey Infants' 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 13 of the 25 other Darlington primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Every applicant was offered a place in 2026, but places ran out (a last distance was published) in 2 of the 3 earlier Reception years.
- Reception 2026 had 73 first-choice applications for 80 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 9th lowest of 27 Darlington primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 12.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Darlington.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Darlington schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Cleveland Terrace, Darlington, DL3 8JA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Darlington
- Pupils on roll
- 264 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 16 November 2022
Strengths
- “Abbey Infants is a welcoming and happy school.”
- “Staff and pupils are inspired by the school motto to ‘Aim high, Work hard, Achieve together.”
- “These values run through every aspect of the life of the school.”
To improve
- “Through their monitoring, leaders have recognised that pupils are less confident in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 73 first-preference applications, 80 offers in total, 73 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 Darlington.
- Abbey Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Mowden Infant School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mowden Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Reid Street Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Cockerton Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good
- Corporation Road Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published