Lydgate Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Sheffield
Last distance offered · Reception 2023
0.92 miles
Published by Sheffield City Council · offers on 17 April 2023
2020–2021 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lydgate Infant School is a primary school in Sheffield for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 June 2023. Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2023 entry.
Lydgate 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 2023 | 0.92 mi |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2023: the last child offered a place lived 0.92 miles away, the 3rd shortest of 6 Sheffield primary schools with a published Reception 2023 last distance (this one included).
- For Reception, the 2023 last distance was nearer the school than in 2021 and 2020; the 2023 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026, there were 74 first-choice applications for 78 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 9.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sheffield is 13.1%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sheffield schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Lydgate Lane, Sheffield, S10 5FQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 339 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enter school happy and ready to learn.”
- “They say that they enjoy coming to school and spending time with their friends.”
- “Pupils receive a warm welcome from staff, who know them very well.”
To improve
- “However, leaders need to further refine their work on assessing what pupils learn across the curriculum.”
- “This is due to some inconsistencies in the systems for reviewing what pupils know and remember.”
- “However, there are fewer opportunities for pupils to take part in other roles and responsibilities that would help to prepare them to become active and responsible citizens.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 August 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 74 first-preference applications, 78 offers in total, 74 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 Sheffield.
- Lydgate Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good
- St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Westways Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Broomhill Infant School 0.7 mi Good
- Nether Green Junior School 1.1 mi Standards maintained
- Hunter's Bar Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hunter's Bar Junior School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Greystones Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published