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St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School

PrimaryAges 5–7AcademyChurch of England

Guildford, GU2 4YD · Surrey local authority

Guildford’s School Grade A better than 90% of towns in England

Getting in
30/40
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
81 pupils
90% of its 90 places
Free school meals
1%
1 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, April 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • 75% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (30 of 40)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (GU2 4) sold for a median £630,000; Guildford’s is £474,500
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School?

75% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

40
families put it first for September 2026
30
places offered
75%
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: 2020 (8), 2021 (5), 2022 (19), 2023 (8), 2024 (4), 2026 (10). 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. Enlighten Learning Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Surrey council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Guildford, September 2026

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

St Nicolas' CofE Infant
1.33 per place
75% got their first choice
1.19 per place
82% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.99 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice
0.92 per place
98% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
0.88 per place
100% got their first choice
Its letter

No letter for St Nicolas' Church of England 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 (no overall grade since September 2024), April 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School

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

Home prices in GU2 4, the school’s postcode sector

Guildford property prices →
£630,000
median sale, 171 sales in 36 months · Guildford £474,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K£800K2010201520202025GU2 4Guildford
GU2 4Guildford

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£1.3M
Semi-detached
£785K
Terraced
£670K
Flat
£378K
GU2 4Guildford

Homes in GU2 4 sell for well over Guildford’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

10 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−B+AA−B−BC−St Nicolas' Church of Engla…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Guildford, GU2 4YD

St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School?

For September 2026, 40 families put St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School first and 30 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

What is St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (April 2025).

How much do houses cost near St Nicolas' Church of England Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, GU2 4, sold for a median £630,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (171 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; Guildford’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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