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Race Leys Infant School

PrimaryAges 4–7Community

Bedworth, CV12 8AD · Warwickshire local authority

Bedworth’s School Grade B better than 55% of towns in England

Getting in
36/36
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
148 pupils
82% of its 180 places
Free school meals
43%
43 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Race Leys Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 43% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, January 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (36 of 36)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CV12 8) sold for a median £222,500; Bedworth’s is £217,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Race Leys Infant School?

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

36
families put it first for September 2026
43
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: 2023 (2). 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. Warwickshire council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Warwickshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Bedworth, September 2026

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

1.34 per place
74% got their first choice
1.34 per place
72% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.91 per place
98% got their first choice
Race Leys Infant
0.84 per place
100% got their first choice
0.84 per place
100% got their first choice
0.78 per place
98% got their first choice
0.69 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

144 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
31.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
6.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
40.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 48%Boys 52%
Its letter

No letter for Race Leys 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 January 2026.

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

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, July 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Race Leys Infant School

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

Home prices in CV12 8, the school’s postcode sector

Bedworth property prices →
£222,500
median sale, 328 sales in 36 months · Bedworth £217,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025CV12 8Bedworth
CV12 8Bedworth

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£287K
Semi-detached
£230K
Terraced
£183K
Flat
£110K
CV12 8Bedworth

Homes in CV12 8 sell for about the same as Bedworth’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

9 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−BADBC−C−C−Race Leys Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Bedworth, CV12 8AD

Race Leys Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Race Leys Infant School?

For September 2026, 36 families put Race Leys Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 43 places were offered in all.

What is Race Leys Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (January 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 Race Leys Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, CV12 8, sold for a median £222,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (328 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; Bedworth’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.