Victor Seymour Infants' School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Carshalton, Sutton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.68 miles
Furthest Distance (Metres): 1,091.64 · Published by London Borough of Sutton · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Victor Seymour Infants' School is a primary school in Carshalton, Sutton for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 12 March 2025. Sutton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Victor Seymour 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 | 0.68 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.68 miles away, the 4th shortest of 13 Sutton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply from 2025 to 2026, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 107 first-choice applications for 90 offers; 87 offers went to first-choice families, and 20 first-choice families (19%) were not offered a place.
- Of pupils here, 10.4% are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sutton is 20.8%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sutton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Denmark Road, Denmark Road, Carshalton, SM5 2JE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Sutton
- Pupils on roll
- 326 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 12 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils blossom in this warm, vibrant and welcoming school.”
- “They arrive happily in the morning, eagerly anticipating all of the learning that each day brings.”
- “Pupils find their lessons fun and engaging.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 107 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 87 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 Sutton.
- Harris Junior Academy Carshalton 0.1 mi Not judged
- St Mary's RC Infants School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's RC Junior School 0.4 mi Improved significantly
- All Saints Carshalton Church of England Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Rushy Meadow Primary Academy 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Muschamp Primary School and Language Opportunity Base 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hackbridge Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Trinity CofE Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good