Rated on Ofsted and the parent survey. Infant schools sit no SATs.
Infant schools stop at Year 2, so children here move to a junior school for Year 3.
This school
Southwater Infant Academy
Junior school
Southwater Junior Academy
Partner junior school
Year 3 to Year 6 · 140 m away from Southwater Infant Academy
You apply for a Year 3 place through the council where you live by 15 January in Year 2, even for Southwater Junior Academy. Check its admission arrangements for any priority it gives children from its partner infant school.
Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 23 June 2026
Infant schools do not sit SATs, and no Year 2 results are published for schools, so there are no exam results for Southwater Infant Academy.
Children from here take SATs in Year 6 at Southwater Junior Academy
69%
met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25, against 63% across England.
See Southwater Junior Academy's resultsSchool workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected Southwater Infant Academy on 23 June 2026 using a report card, which grades each area separately and gives no overall grade. The school met Ofsted's safeguarding standards. It was graded Expected standard for achievement, for curriculum and teaching, for inclusion, for leadership and governance, for personal development and wellbeing, for attendance and behaviour and for early years.
Apply through the council where you live by 15 January for a Reception place starting that September. Children start Reception in the September after their fourth birthday. You can usually list between 3 and 6 schools in order of preference, and offers are sent on 16 April, or the next working day.
Southwater Infant Academy is an infant school, so children move to a junior school for Year 3. Its partner junior school is Southwater Junior Academy, 140 m away. You apply for a Year 3 place through the council where you live by 15 January in Year 2, even for Southwater Junior Academy. Check its admission arrangements for any priority it gives children from its partner infant school.
No. Distance only counts when Southwater Infant Academy has more applicants than places. Then its admission criteria, set by its academy trust, decide who is offered a place first. Children in care or adopted from care come first by law. Most schools put brothers and sisters of current pupils next, then distance or a catchment area. How far away the last place went changes every year, depending on who applies.
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