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Valley End CofE Infant School

PrimaryAges 5–7AcademyChurch of England

near Windlesham, GU24 8TB · Surrey local authority

Windlesham’s School Grade A better than 89% of towns in England

Getting in
52/76
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
163 pupils
91% of its 180 places
Free school meals
4%
4 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Valley End CofE Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Outside any built-up area: listed with Windlesham, the nearest town
  • 68% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (52 of 76)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (GU24 8) sold for a median £600,000; Windlesham’s is £663,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Valley End CofE Infant School?

68% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

76
families put it first for September 2026
59
places offered
68%
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 (15), 2020 (13), 2022 (1), 2024 (5), 2025 (6), 2026 (24). 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. The Good Shepherd Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Surrey council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2026

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

1.53 per place
63% got their first choice
Valley End CofE Infant
1.29 per place
68% got their first choice
0.92 per place
100% got their first choice
0.91 per place
100% got their first choice
0.83 per place
100% got their first choice
0.72 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

161 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
4.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
3.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 43%Boys 57%
Its letter

No letter for Valley End CofE 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), November 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Valley End CofE Infant School

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

Home prices in GU24 8, the school’s postcode sector

Windlesham property prices →
£600,000
median sale, 151 sales in 36 months · Windlesham £663,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K£800K2010201520202025GU24 8Windlesham
GU24 8Windlesham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£825K
Semi-detached
£551K
Terraced
£435K
Flat
£265K
GU24 8Windlesham

Homes in GU24 8 sell for a little under Windlesham’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

1 state school
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA+Valley End CofE Infant Scho…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

near Windlesham, GU24 8TB

Valley End CofE Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Valley End CofE Infant School?

For September 2026, 76 families put Valley End CofE Infant School first and 52 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.

What is Valley End CofE Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (November 2024).

How much do houses cost near Valley End CofE Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, GU24 8, sold for a median £600,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (151 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; Windlesham’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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