Horsted Infant School
Horsted Infant School is a converter academy in Chatham for boys and girls aged 3 to 7.
Barberry Avenue, Chatham, ME5 9TF01634 335400horstedschool.co.ukMrs Sarah Steer executive headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet. That is normal for a school that opened in 2026: new schools usually get their first inspection within three years.
Before it became this school, Horsted Infant School was inspected on 10 October 2023 and judged Good (report). Same building, same children, so that report is the best guide until Ofsted comes back.
Results
No published results yet for this school.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Medway council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
Attendance and behaviour
In 2024/25 pupils were in school 95.9% of the time. Across similar schools in England it was 94.8%.
Attendance year by year
| Measure | 2024/25† | 2023/24† | 2022/23† | 2021/22† | 2020/21† | 2018/19† | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions missedOverall absence | 4.1% | 5.2% | 5.2% | 5.0% | 2.1% | 3.5% | 5.2% |
| Missed with permissionAuthorised absence | 3.2% | 3.9% | 3.9% | 4.1% | 1.3% | 2.7% | – |
| Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence | 1.0% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.9% | – |
| Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence | 7.4% | 14.1% | 8.1% | 8.1% | 0.8% | 3.3% | 12.8% |
† These attendance figures are for Horsted Infant School, the school this one replaced in September 2026. Same building and the same children. It got a new registration number, usually because it joined an academy trust.
Money
Money
From the council school accounts, year to March 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other primary schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest primary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horsted Junior School | Academy | 80 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Oaklands School | Academy | 890 m | 444 | Good 2023 | 39 | Compare |
| St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School | Academy | 0.7 miles | 397 | No overall grade 2024 | – | Compare |
| Walderslade Primary School | Academy | 0.9 miles | 235 | Good 2024 | 74 | Compare |
| Warren Wood Primary School | Academy | 1.0 miles | 458 | No overall grade 2025 | 6 | Compare |
| Maundene School | Academy | 1.0 miles | 385 | Good 2022 | 33 | Compare |
| Wayfield Primary School | Academy | 1.1 miles | 428 | Report card 2025 | 2 | Compare |
| New Horizons Children's Academy | Academy | 1.1 miles | 618 | Good 2022 | 16 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Horsted Infant School a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Horsted Infant School yet.
How many pupils does Horsted Infant School have?
The number of pupils is not published.
What is attendance like at Horsted Infant School?
Pupils were in school 95.9% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 94.8%. 7% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Barberry Avenue, Chatham, ME5 9TF
- Telephone
- 01634 335400
- Website
- www.horstedschool.co.uk
- Executive Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Steer
- Type of school
- Converter academy (Academy converter, academies)
- Phase
- Primary school, ages 3-7, with nursery
- Gender
- Mixed
- Multi-academy trust
- The Bluebell MAT (4 schools)
- Local authority
- Medway
- Ward
- Fort Horsted
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 September 2026 (academy converter)
- URN
- 152589 · LAESTAB 8872439 · UKPRN 10101165
- Formerly
- Horsted Infant School
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Attendance: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25 full year.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, consistent financial reporting 2024/25.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.