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Manby Lodge Infant School

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Weybridge, KT13 9DA · Surrey local authority

Weybridge’s School Grade A better than 88% of towns in England

Getting in
80/85
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
269 pupils
100% of its 270 places
Free school meals
7%
7 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Manby Lodge Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, May 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • 94% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (80 of 85)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (KT13 9) sold for a median £575,000; Weybridge’s is £600,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Manby Lodge Infant School?

94% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

85
families put it first for September 2026
89
places offered
94%
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 (10), 2022 (5), 2023 (23), 2024 (18), 2025 (18), 2026 (5). 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 Weybridge, September 2026

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

1.37 per place
73% got their first choice
1.15 per place
85% got their first choice
Manby Lodge Infant
0.96 per place
94% got their first choice
0.82 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

269 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
10.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
10.4%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
7.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 52%Boys 48%
Its letter

No letter for Manby Lodge 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 May 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, December 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Manby Lodge Infant School

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

Home prices in KT13 9, the school’s postcode sector

Weybridge property prices →
£575,000
median sale, 427 sales in 36 months · Weybridge £600,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K£800K2010201520202025KT13 9Weybridge
KT13 9Weybridge

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£1.3M
Semi-detached
£820K
Terraced
£683K
Flat
£377K
KT13 9Weybridge

Homes in KT13 9 sell for a little under Weybridge’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

5 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB+A+AA+Manby Lodge Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Weybridge, KT13 9DA

Manby Lodge Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Manby Lodge Infant School?

For September 2026, 85 families put Manby Lodge Infant School first and 80 of them were offered a place; 89 places were offered in all.

What is Manby Lodge Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (May 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 Manby Lodge Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, KT13 9, sold for a median £575,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (427 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; Weybridge’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.