Kinsale Infant School
Kinsale Infant School is a converter academy in Norwich for boys and girls aged 4 to 7. It has 110 pupils and room for 180. About 14 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in England. Ofsted's last grade was inspected 2025, no overall grade.
Kinsale Avenue, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 5SG01603 405227kinsaleinfant.norfolk.sch.ukMs Stacey Coleman headteacherAll details
What Ofsted found
Ofsted's last full inspection was on 3 June 2025, back when it gave schools one overall grade. Read the report on Ofsted's website.
Not judged Between September 2024 and November 2025, Ofsted graded each area but stopped giving one overall word.
Earlier inspections (1)
| Date | Type | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 23 January 2020 | Ungraded | School remains Good |
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 Norfolk council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: language and communications needs (8), emotional and mental health (6), Specific learning difficulty (1).
Attendance and behaviour
In 2024/25 pupils were in school 94.3% 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 | 5.8% | 6.7% | 5.4% | 5.4% | 1.8% | 3.7% | 5.2% |
| Missed with permissionAuthorised absence | 4.3% | 5.4% | 4.2% | 4.8% | 1.6% | 2.8% | – |
| Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence | 1.5% | 1.3% | 1.2% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.9% | – |
| Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence | 9.6% | 11.1% | 11.7% | 8.3% | 2.7% | 3.9% | 12.8% |
† These attendance figures are for Kinsale Infant School, the school this one replaced in July 2025. Same building and the same children. It got a new registration number, usually because it joined an academy trust.
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the academy accounts return, year to August 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinsale Junior School | Academy | 0 m | 217 | Good 2023 | 29 | Compare |
| Heather Avenue Infant School | Academy | 990 m | 99 | No overall grade 2024 | 58 | Compare |
| Firside Junior School | Academy | 0.6 miles | 327 | Not inspected | 33 | Compare |
| Arden Grove Infant and Nursery School | Academy | 0.7 miles | 173 | No overall grade 2025 | 92 | Compare |
| Mile Cross Primary School | Council | 0.9 miles | 465 | Not inspected | 55 | Compare |
| Catton Grove Primary School | Council | 1.1 miles | 639 | Good 2023 | 18 | Compare |
| Valley Primary Academy | Academy | 1.5 miles | 153 | Requires improvement 2023 | 8 | Compare |
| Garrick Green Infant School | Academy | 1.6 miles | 116 | No overall grade 2024 | 31 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Kinsale Infant School a good school?
Kinsale Infant School doesn't have a score yet. Ofsted rated it not judged at its last inspection in June 2025.
What is Kinsale Infant School's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted rated Kinsale Infant School not judged at its last full inspection on 3 June 2025.
How many pupils does Kinsale Infant School have?
110 pupils aged 4 to 7 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 180 places, so it is 61% full.
What is attendance like at Kinsale Infant School?
Pupils were in school 94.3% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 94.8%. 10% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.
How big are the classes at Kinsale Infant School?
The average class had 27.5 pupils in January 2026. Across England it was 25.4. No class had more than 30 pupils.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Kinsale Avenue, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 5SG
- Telephone
- 01603 405227
- Website
- www.kinsaleinfant.norfolk.sch.uk
- Headteacher
- Ms Stacey Coleman
- Type of school
- Converter academy (Academy converter, academies)
- Phase
- Primary school, ages 4-7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Multi-academy trust
- The Wensum Trust (12 schools)
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- Ward
- Hellesdon South East
- Constituency
- Norwich North
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 July 2025 (academy converter)
- URN
- 151420 · LAESTAB 9262361 · UKPRN 10096768
- Formerly
- Kinsale 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.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Class sizes: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, academy accounts return 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.