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Meath Green Infant School

PrimaryAges 4–7Community

Horley, RH6 8JG · Surrey local authority

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

Getting in
64/64
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
267 pupils
99% of its 270 places
Free school meals
8%
8 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Meath Green Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (64 of 64)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (RH6 8) sold for a median £432,000; Horley’s is £418,000
Getting in

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

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

64
families put it first for September 2026
86
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 (23), 2020 (31), 2021 (4), 2022 (12), 2023 (2), 2024 (4). 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. Surrey council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Surrey council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Horley, September 2026

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

1.50 per place
67% got their first choice
1.23 per place
73% got their first choice
1.17 per place
81% got their first choice
1.03 per place
87% got their first choice
0.90 per place
94% got their first choice
Meath Green Infant
0.74 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

270 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
8.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
6.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
8.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 51%Boys 49%
Its letter

No letter for Meath Green 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.

Report card, inspection starting June 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, March 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Meath Green Infant School

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

Home prices in RH6 8, the school’s postcode sector

Horley property prices →
£432,000
median sale, 567 sales in 36 months · Horley £418,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K£500K2010201520202025RH6 8Horley
RH6 8Horley

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£573K
Semi-detached
£443K
Terraced
£385K
Flat
£249K
RH6 8Horley

Homes in RH6 8 sell for a little over Horley’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

8 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−BC−B+B+B−Meath Green Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Horley, RH6 8JG

Meath Green Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Meath Green Infant School?

For September 2026, 64 families put Meath Green Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 86 places were offered in all.

What is Meath Green Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Meath Green Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, RH6 8, sold for a median £432,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (567 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; Horley’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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