Loddon Infant and Nursery School
Loddon Infant and Nursery School is a converter academy in Norwich for boys and girls aged 3 to 7. It has 135 pupils. About 16 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in England. Ofsted's last grade was inspected 2024, no overall grade.
Kittens Lane, Loddon, Norwich, NR14 6JX01508 505180loddonprimaryfederation.co.ukMrs Sara El Oakley headteacherAll details
What Ofsted found
Ofsted's last full inspection was on 8 October 2024, 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.
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: emotional and mental health (13), language and communications needs (10), Moderate learning difficulty (6), Vision impairment (1).
Attendance and behaviour
In 2024/25 pupils were in school 95.2% 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 | 4.8% | 7.2% | 7.3% | 8.1% | 2.7% | 4.0% | 5.2% |
| Missed with permissionAuthorised absence | 3.8% | 5.1% | 5.6% | 6.4% | 2.3% | 3.0% | – |
| Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence | 1.0% | 2.1% | 1.7% | 1.7% | 0.4% | 1.0% | – |
| Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence | 15.7% | 19.1% | 24.5% | 23.0% | 5.1% | 8.6% | 12.8% |
† These attendance figures are for Loddon Infant and Nursery School, the school this one replaced in November 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 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loddon Junior School | Academy | 0 m | 189 | No overall grade 2024 | – | Compare |
| Thurton Primary School | Church of England | 2.5 miles | 110 | No overall grade 2025 | 59 | Compare |
| Seething and Mundham Primary School | Academy | 2.5 miles | 96 | Good 2024 | 50 | Compare |
| Thurlton Primary School | Academy | 3.6 miles | 69 | Good 2024 | 41 | Compare |
| Ellingham VC Primary School | Church of England | 3.9 miles | 88 | Good 2023 | 17 | Compare |
| Rockland St Mary Primary School | Academy | 4.4 miles | 78 | Good 2022 | 82 | Compare |
| Reedham Primary School | Academy | 4.4 miles | 92 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Ditchingham Church of England Primary Academy | Academy | 4.5 miles | 65 | Good 2022 | 50 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Loddon Infant and Nursery School a good school?
Loddon Infant and Nursery School doesn't have a score yet. Ofsted rated it not judged at its last inspection in October 2024.
What is Loddon Infant and Nursery School's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted rated Loddon Infant and Nursery School not judged at its last full inspection on 8 October 2024.
How many pupils does Loddon Infant and Nursery School have?
135 pupils aged 3 to 7 were on the roll in January 2026.
What is attendance like at Loddon Infant and Nursery School?
Pupils were in school 95.2% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 94.8%. 16% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.
How big are the classes at Loddon Infant and Nursery School?
The average class had 22.3 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
- Kittens Lane, Loddon, Norwich, NR14 6JX
- Telephone
- 01508 505180
- Website
- www.loddonprimaryfederation.co.uk
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sara El Oakley
- Type of school
- Converter academy (Academy converter, academies)
- Phase
- Primary school, ages 3-7, with nursery
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Multi-academy trust
- The Active Learning Trust Limited (21 schools)
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- Ward
- Loddon & Chedgrave
- Constituency
- South Norfolk
- Setting
- Larger rural: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 November 2025 (academy converter)
- URN
- 152183 · LAESTAB 9265213 · UKPRN 10099134
- Formerly
- Loddon Infant and Nursery 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, 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.