St Andrew's Church of England Infants School

About St Andrew's Church of England Infants School

St Andrew's Church of England Infants School sits within East Sussex, a local authority that contains 144 primary schools, ten of which hold an Outstanding rating from Ofsted. The school itself is rated Good, placing it in the solid middle tier of provision across the county. Among its Church of England peers in the area, the top performers include St Peter and St Paul CofE Primary School, Catsfield Church of England Primary School, and Blackboys Church of England Primary School, each scoring highly on a local ranking measure. St Andrew's is a state-funded, mixed-gender infant school in Eastbourne, catering for children aged four to seven, with a capacity of 270 pupils and a current roll of 250. Its headteacher is Carol Meakins. The school is heavily oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, it received 143 applications for 64 places, with all 64 first-preference applicants offered a spot, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.23. That level of demand suggests strong local confidence in what the school offers.

Academically, the school's most recent graded Ofsted inspection took place in 2015, when it was rated Good overall, with Good marks for leadership and management and for early years provision. A subsequent ungraded inspection in 2018 confirmed the school remained Good. This represents a clear improvement from its previous graded inspection in 2013, when it was rated Requires Improvement. The school does not publish Key Stage 2 SATs results because it is an infants school, meaning children leave at age seven before those assessments are taken. However, the local authority average for Key Stage 2 attainment across East Sussex primary schools is 59 percent, providing a benchmark for the schools that these children will eventually move on to. The school's religious character as Church of England is reflected in its facilities, which include a chapel, and in its ethos, though specific data on collective worship or religious education is not available in this dataset.

The school offers a broad range of facilities for such a young age group, including a library, art studios, a dining hall, a sports hall, and a Forest School programme. Sports on offer include swimming, athletics, netball, cross country, gymnastics, and cricket, while clubs extend to drama, coding, book club, science club, and art club. For families with children who have additional needs, the school lists SEND provisions covering specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, multi-sensory impairment, and autistic spectrum disorder. The school does not have a nursery or a sixth form, and it is not a boarding school. Given its oversubscription rate and its focus on the early years, this school is best suited to families in Eastbourne who prioritise a Church of England infant setting with strong local demand and a clear track record of improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating.

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