Fulmer Infant School

About Fulmer Infant School

Fulmer Infant School was rated Good in its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2025, with inspectors awarding an Outstanding grade for leadership and management. This marks a change from the school’s previous inspection in 2014, when it was judged Outstanding overall. The current inspection did not assign an overall effectiveness grade, but the breakdown shows Good ratings for quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and early years provision. For a school of just 65 pupils, the academic story is best told through its early years and infant-phase outcomes, though no specific KS1 or SATs results are published in the data. What is clear is that parents are overwhelmingly positive: 97% would recommend the school, and 87% strongly agreed that their child is happy there. With a very low proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 3.1%, the school serves a relatively advantaged intake, which may contribute to its strong start in the early years.

The school’s most informative exam metric is its early years provision, which was rated Good in the 2025 inspection. For context, Buckinghamshire’s local authority average for Key Stage 2 attainment is 64%, though Fulmer Infant School only covers ages 5 to 7, so its pupils have not yet reached that benchmark. The school’s Ofsted report highlights that behaviour and attitudes are Good, and personal development is also Good, suggesting a solid foundation for academic progress. Parents feel the school has high expectations: 60% strongly agreed and 23% agreed with that statement, while only 7% disagreed. The school’s capacity is 75, and with 65 pupils currently enrolled, it is not full, yet it is oversubscribed for 2025/26 admissions, receiving 121 applications for 26 places — an oversubscription ratio of 4.65. Only 10 first-preference offers were made, indicating strong local demand.

Fulmer Infant School offers a range of facilities including an ICT suite, sports hall, music rooms, a forest school, and a chapel. Sports provision covers rounders, football, cricket, swimming, netball, and cross country, while clubs include book club, art, drama, film, chess, and gardening. The school has SEND provisions for social, emotional and mental health, speech, language and communication, and autistic spectrum disorder, though no parents responded to the SEND support question in the Parent View survey. With a small, mixed-gender intake and a strong local reputation reflected in its oversubscription, this school is well suited to families in the Buckinghamshire area seeking a nurturing infant-phase setting with strong leadership and a broad range of activities. The school does not have a nursery or sixth form, and is not a boarding school.

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