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John T Rice Infant and Nursery School

PrimaryAges 3–7Community

Forest Town, NG19 0LL · Nottinghamshire local authority

Forest Town’s School Grade C+ better than 42% of towns in England

Getting in
48/48
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
188 pupils
125% of its 150 places
Free school meals
24%
24 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about John T Rice Infant and Nursery School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 188 pupils for 150 places
  • Ofsted: Good, December 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (48 of 48)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (NG19 0) sold for a median £206,145; Forest Town’s is £207,500
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at John T Rice Infant and Nursery School?

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

48
families put it first for September 2026
48
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: 2019 (11), 2020 (5), 2021 (2), 2023 (2), 2024 (9). 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. Nottinghamshire council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Nottinghamshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Forest Town, September 2026

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

John T Rice Infant and Nursery
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
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Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

187 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
13.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
28.9%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

No letter for John T Rice Infant and Nursery 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: School remains Good, December 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near John T Rice Infant and Nursery School

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

Home prices in NG19 0, the school’s postcode sector

Forest Town property prices →
£206,145
median sale, 509 sales in 36 months · Forest Town £207,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025NG19 0Forest Town
NG19 0Forest Town

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£265K
Semi-detached
£175K
Terraced
£139K
NG19 0Forest Town

Homes in NG19 0 sell for about the same as Forest Town’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

6 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−B+A−D−BCJohn T Rice Infant and Nurs…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Forest Town, NG19 0LL

John T Rice Infant and Nursery School: common questions

How hard is it to get into John T Rice Infant and Nursery School?

For September 2026, 48 families put John T Rice Infant and Nursery School first and all of them were offered a place; 48 places were offered in all.

What is John T Rice Infant and Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (December 2023).

How much do houses cost near John T Rice Infant and Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, NG19 0, sold for a median £206,145 over the 36 months to August 2026 (509 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; Forest Town’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.