High Down Infant School
Portishead, BS20 6DY · North Somerset local authority
Portishead’s School Grade A better than 90% of towns in England
What stands out about High Down Infant School
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Room to spare: 198 pupils for 270 places
- 5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, November 2022 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (40 of 40)
- Homes in its postcode sector (BS20 6) sold for a median £351,500; Portishead’s is £382,500
How hard is it to get a place at High Down Infant School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (3), 2021 (1), 2023 (6), 2024 (11). 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. Lighthouse Schools Partnership sets the admissions rules. Apply through North Somerset council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025214 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.
Girls and boys
No letter for High Down 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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, November 2022.
Living near High Down Infant School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in BS20 6, the school’s postcode sector
Portishead property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in BS20 6 sell for a little under Portishead’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 schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Portishead, BS20 6DY
High Down Infant School: common questions
How hard is it to get into High Down Infant School?
For September 2026, 40 families put High Down Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 40 places were offered in all.
What is High Down Infant School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2022).
How much do houses cost near High Down Infant School?
Homes in its postcode sector, BS20 6, sold for a median £351,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (425 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; Portishead’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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