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Carlton Vale Infant School

PrimaryAges 3–7Community

Brent, NW6 5RG · Brent local authority

Brent’s School Grade A− better than 84% of towns in England

Getting in
6/6
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
44 pupils
19% of its 230 places
Free school meals
36%
36 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Carlton Vale Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 44 pupils for 230 places
  • 36% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, July 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (6 of 6)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (NW6 5) sold for a median £532,500; Brent’s is £551,464
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Carlton Vale Infant School?

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

6
families put it first for September 2026
7
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
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2025 (1). 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. Brent council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Brent council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Brent, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.85 per place
54% got their first choice
1.59 per place
60% got their first choice
1.37 per place
71% got their first choice
1.22 per place
79% got their first choice
1.15 per place
86% got their first choice
1.12 per place
78% got their first choice
1.05 per place
95% got their first choice
1.05 per place
79% got their first choice
1.04 per place
92% got their first choice
Carlton Vale Infant
0.86 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

60 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
30%England 15.3%
EHC plan
25%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
71.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
41.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 38%Boys 62%
Its letter

No letter for Carlton Vale 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.

Graded inspection: Good, July 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Carlton Vale Infant School

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

Home prices in NW6 5, the school’s postcode sector

Brent property prices →
£532,500
median sale, 244 sales in 36 months · Brent £551,464

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K2010201520202025NW6 5Brent
NW6 5Brent

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Terraced
£840K
Flat
£530K
NW6 5Brent

Homes in NW6 5 sell for a little under Brent’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

57 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBAA+AAB+CAA+CA+C+A+A−B+AA−BAB+B+B−AA+A+CCCA−CB−BB−ACAAB−C+A+CB+B−ABA−BA+A+C+A−BABABC+Carlton Vale Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Brent, NW6 5RG

Carlton Vale Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Carlton Vale Infant School?

For September 2026, 6 families put Carlton Vale Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 7 places were offered in all.

What is Carlton Vale Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (July 2023).

How much do houses cost near Carlton Vale Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, NW6 5, sold for a median £532,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (244 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; Brent’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.