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Shears Green Infant School

PrimaryAges 3–7Academy

Northfleet, DA11 7JF · Kent local authority

Northfleet’s School Grade B better than 62% of towns in England

Getting in
65/65
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
258 pupils
72% of its 360 places
Free school meals
35%
35 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Shears Green Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 258 pupils for 360 places
  • 35% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, December 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (65 of 65)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (DA11 7) sold for a median £351,500; Northfleet’s is £330,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Shears Green Infant School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

65
families put it first for September 2026
73
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Hornchurch Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Kent council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Northfleet, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.60 per place
63% got their first choice
1.30 per place
74% got their first choice
1.26 per place
79% got their first choice
1.17 per place
84% got their first choice
Shears Green Infant
0.89 per place
100% got their first choice
0.85 per place
92% got their first choice
0.78 per place
100% got their first choice
0.67 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

279 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
11.8%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
13.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
35.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 46%Boys 54%
Its letter

No letter for Shears Green Infant School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, December 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Shears Green Infant School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in DA11 7, the school’s postcode sector

Northfleet property prices →
£351,500
median sale, 302 sales in 36 months · Northfleet £330,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025DA11 7Northfleet
DA11 7Northfleet

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£610K
Semi-detached
£395K
Terraced
£320K
Flat
£175K
DA11 7Northfleet

Homes in DA11 7 sell for a little over Northfleet’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

21 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBC+CA−BC−DCA+CA+C−C+DB+BA−BB−B−DShears Green Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Northfleet, DA11 7JF

Shears Green Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Shears Green Infant School?

For September 2026, 65 families put Shears Green Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 73 places were offered in all.

What is Shears Green Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (December 2024).

How much do houses cost near Shears Green Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, DA11 7, sold for a median £351,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (302 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Northfleet’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.