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Stanley Park Infants School

PrimaryAges 3–7Academy

Sutton, SM5 3JL · Sutton local authority

Sutton’s School Grade A+ better than 97% of towns in England

Getting in
72/75
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
286 pupils
97% of its 296 places
Free school meals
10%
10 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Stanley Park Infants School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 10% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, December 2022 (shown, not graded)
  • 96% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (72 of 75)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SM5 3) sold for a median £600,000; Sutton’s is £455,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Stanley Park Infants School?

96% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

75
families put it first for September 2026
89
places offered
96%
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: 2019 (30), 2020 (31), 2021 (7), 2022 (26), 2023 (9), 2025 (14), 2026 (3). 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. Cirrus Primary Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Sutton council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Sutton, September 2026

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

1.56 per place
62% got their first choice
1.30 per place
77% got their first choice
1.28 per place
73% got their first choice
1.19 per place
81% got their first choice
1.17 per place
81% got their first choice
1.13 per place
85% got their first choice
1.12 per place
85% got their first choice
1.10 per place
86% got their first choice
1.09 per place
89% got their first choice
Stanley Park Infants
0.84 per place
96% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

288 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
8.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.7%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
18.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
9.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 53%Boys 47%
Its letter

No letter for Stanley Park Infants 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, December 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Stanley Park Infants School

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

Home prices in SM5 3, the school’s postcode sector

Sutton property prices →
£600,000
median sale, 240 sales in 36 months · Sutton £455,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K2010201520202025SM5 3Sutton
SM5 3Sutton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£810K
Semi-detached
£678K
Terraced
£532K
Flat
£306K
SM5 3Sutton

Homes in SM5 3 sell for well over Sutton’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

31 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−C+AB+AA−A−A−AA+B−A+A+A−A+A−ACA−A+D−ADB−BA+C−Stanley Park Infants School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Sutton, SM5 3JL

Stanley Park Infants School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Stanley Park Infants School?

For September 2026, 75 families put Stanley Park Infants School first and 72 of them were offered a place; 89 places were offered in all.

What is Stanley Park Infants School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (December 2022).

How much do houses cost near Stanley Park Infants School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SM5 3, sold for a median £600,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (240 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; Sutton’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.

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