Carterhatch Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Enfield
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Enfield Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Carterhatch Infant School is a primary school in Enfield for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 September 2023. Enfield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Carterhatch Infant School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026, every applicant was offered a place, as at 50 of the 58 other Enfield primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 49 first-choice applications for 50 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 39% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 45.8% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Enfield.
- The school has 21.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.2 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Enfield.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Enfield schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Carterhatch Lane, Enfield, EN1 4JY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Enfield
- Pupils on roll
- 292 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are really happy to come to this school.”
- “They embrace the school’s values through the characters of Polly Perseverance, Chico Challenge, Ruby Resilience and Kai Kindness.”
- “Staff talk with pupils when they are demonstrating one of these values, helping pupils to understand the school’s expectations and routines.”
To improve
- “The school has chosen to renew the way it teaches phonics and early reading because some pupils did not reach the same level as their peers.”
- “Pupils are often at an early stage with their reading, and staff have worked hard to improve pupils’ understanding of the books that they are reading.”
- “While pupils make strong progress from their low starting points, some do not reach the expected standard at the end of their time at this school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 49 first-preference applications, 50 offers in total, 49 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Enfield.
- Carterhatch Junior School 0.0 mi Standards maintained
- Suffolks Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Enfield Heights Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St James CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Worcesters Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Forty Hill CofE Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Eastfield Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kingfisher Hall Primary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published