Holt House Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Sheffield
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
0.754 miles
Published by Sheffield City Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2021–2023 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Holt House Infant School is a primary school in Sheffield for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 18 October 2022. Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2024 entry.
Holt House 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 2024 | 0.754 mi |
| 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2024 lived 0.754 miles from the school, the 3rd shortest of 6 Sheffield primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2024 Reception distance was nearer than in 2023 and about the same as in 2021, and the 2024 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 43 first-choice applications for 48 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Bannerdale Road, Sheffield, S7 2EW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 166 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 18 October 2022
Strengths
- “This is a welcoming and highly inclusive school.”
- “All pupils are encouraged to participate in after-school clubs.”
- “Pupils understand why adults have high expectations of them to work hard and behave well.”
To improve
- “These refinements have not been in place long enough to measure the impact on outcomes for pupils.”
- “In Reception outdoor space, the quality of activities is not as well developed.”
- “There are fewer opportunities for adults to check what children know and to decide how to move their learning forward.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 December 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 43 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.
- Carter Knowle Junior School 0.2 mi Standards maintained
- Meersbrook Bank Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Good
- Nether Edge Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Woodseats Primary School 0.6 mi Good
- Dobcroft Nursery Infant School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dobcroft Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Abbey Lane Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade