Academy converter · Primary
King's Lynn · PE30 4QJ · Norfolk
Ages 2–7
Status: Open
0.6 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 120906
Fairstead Community Primary and Nursery School
Community school · King's Lynn · PE30 4RR
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
429
Local authority
Norfolk
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 3–11, in King's Lynn, Norfolk, 429 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 28.7%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 120906
Location
- Address
- William Booth Road, Fairstead
- Postcode
- PE30 4RR
- Town
- King's Lynn
- County
- Norfolk
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- District
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 429
- Boys / girls
- 220 / 209
- School capacity
- 446
- Capacity fill
- 429 / 446 (96%)
- Free school meals
- 28.7%
- FSM pupils
- 115
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Daniel Farthing
- Telephone
- 01553774666
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-02-11
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 30%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 0%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 100.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 104.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
5.4%
Persistent absence
17.4%
Unauthorised
1.9%
- Authorised absence
- 3.4%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 2.4%
- Enrolments in measure
- 374
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 5.4% · Persistent 11.3%
- 2021/22
- Overall 6.6% · Persistent 20.8%