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Sprowston Infant School

PrimaryAges 4–7Community

Norwich, NR7 8EW · Norfolk local authority

Norwich’s School Grade C better than 33% of towns in England

Getting in
39/39
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
111 pupils
54% of its 206 places
Free school meals
26%
26 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Sprowston Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 111 pupils for 206 places
  • Ofsted: Inspected, May 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (39 of 39)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (NR7 8) sold for a median £270,000; Norwich’s is £250,000
Getting in

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

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

39
families put it first for September 2026
40
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. Norfolk council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Norfolk council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Norwich, September 2026

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

1.29 per place
75% got their first choice
1.23 per place
81% got their first choice
1.19 per place
84% got their first choice
1.11 per place
90% got their first choice
1.10 per place
89% got their first choice
1.10 per place
91% got their first choice
1.09 per place
92% got their first choice
1.09 per place
87% got their first choice
1.07 per place
90% got their first choice
Sprowston Infant
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

130 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
10.8%England 15.3%
EHC plan
23.1%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
10.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
26.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 45%Boys 55%
Its letter

No letter for Sprowston 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, February 2020. Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, May 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Sprowston Infant School

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

Home prices in NR7 8, the school’s postcode sector

Norwich property prices →
£270,000
median sale, 661 sales in 36 months · Norwich £250,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025NR7 8Norwich
NR7 8Norwich

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£325K
Semi-detached
£270K
Terraced
£245K
Flat
£166K
NR7 8Norwich

Homes in NR7 8 sell for a little over Norwich’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

20 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−C−BC−CCD−DDC−BC+DSprowston Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Norwich, NR7 8EW

Sprowston Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Sprowston Infant School?

For September 2026, 39 families put Sprowston Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 40 places were offered in all.

What is Sprowston Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (May 2025).

How much do houses cost near Sprowston Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, NR7 8, sold for a median £270,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (661 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; Norwich’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.