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Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery

PrimaryAges 2–7Academy

Epsom, KT17 3AS · Surrey local authority

Epsom’s School Grade A better than 94% of towns in England

Getting in
56/77
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
237 pupils
106% of its 224 places
Free school meals
4%
4 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 237 pupils for 224 places
  • 4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, November 2021 (shown, not graded)
  • 73% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (56 of 77)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (KT17 3) sold for a median £857,500; Epsom’s is £475,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery?

73% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

77
families put it first for September 2026
59
places offered
73%
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 (24), 2020 (49), 2021 (28), 2022 (27), 2023 (28), 2024 (19), 2025 (24), 2026 (21). 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. South Farnham Educational Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Surrey council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Epsom, September 2026

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

Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery
1.31 per place
73% got their first choice
1.04 per place
94% got their first choice
1.02 per place
97% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

242 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
9.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
35.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
3.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 52%Boys 48%
Its letter

No letter for Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery

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: Outstanding, November 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery

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

Home prices in KT17 3, the school’s postcode sector

Epsom property prices →
£857,500
median sale, 153 sales in 36 months · Epsom £475,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£400K£600K£800K£1M£1.2M2010201520202025KT17 3Epsom
KT17 3Epsom

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£1M
Semi-detached
£747K
Terraced
£550K
Flat
£366K
KT17 3Epsom

Homes in KT17 3 sell for well over Epsom’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

14 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBAA−AAB+A−A−C−BAA−Wallace Fields Infant Schoo…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Epsom, KT17 3AS

Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery: common questions

How hard is it to get into Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery?

For September 2026, 77 families put Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery first and 56 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.

What is Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (November 2021).

How much do houses cost near Wallace Fields Infant School and Nursery?

Homes in its postcode sector, KT17 3, sold for a median £857,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (153 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; Epsom’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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