Falconer's Hill Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–7 · Daventry, West Northamptonshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From West Northamptonshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Falconer's Hill Infant School is a primary school in Daventry, West Northamptonshire for ages 5–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 May 2024. West Northamptonshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Falconer's Hill 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 every Reception applicant was offered a place, as at 124 of the 141 other West Northamptonshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 49 first-choice applications for 51 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 21 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 23.5 across the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Northamptonshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Ashby Road, Daventry, NN11 0QF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- West Northamptonshire
- Pupils on roll
- 164 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils love coming to this school, and their attendance is high.”
- “They say that it is a very good place to be, because they know that staff care for them and want them to be ‘safe, loved and happy’.”
- “If ever they feel worried, they can sit on the ‘safe chairs’, where they know staff will help them.”
To improve
- “The leadership of some subjects is still at the early stages of being developed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 49 first-preference applications, 51 offers in total, 49 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 Northamptonshire.
- Falconer's Hill Academy 0.0 mi School remains Good
- St James Infant School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Abbey CofE Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Ashby Fields Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- E-ACT The Grange School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Monksmoor Park Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Welton Church of England Academy 1.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Staverton Church of England Voluntary Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published