Hillborough Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Luton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.829 miles
Published by Luton Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hillborough Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Luton for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 May 2023. Luton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Hillborough Infant and Nursery 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 | 0.829 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.829 miles away, the 4th longest of 12 Luton primary schools with a published last distance.
- For Reception in 2026, the last distance offered was further than in 2025, while 27 other Luton primary schools offered every applicant a place.
- For 2026 Reception, there were 89 first-choice applications for 90 offers: 80 offers went to first-choice families, and 9 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 16.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Luton is 31.8%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Luton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hillborough Road, Luton, LU1 5EZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Luton
- Pupils on roll
- 296 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 May 2023
Strengths
- “Hillborough Infants is a welcoming school, where pupils feel like part of a family.”
- “Pupils are constantly kind and caring towards each other.”
- “They work together extremely well in lessons, such as when reading to each other or working on a joint computer project.”
To improve
- “Teachers occasionally set tasks that are too hard for pupils because they do not have the skills and knowledge they need.”
- “For example, writing tasks are sometimes too hard for some pupils who struggle to write legibly.”
- “Not all staff are confident yet in applying the new policy.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 July 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 89 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 80 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 Luton.
- Hillborough Junior School 0.0 mi Outstanding
- Farley Junior Academy 0.3 mi Outstanding
- Tennyson Road Primary School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Margaret of Scotland Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Dallow Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Whipperley Infant Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cutenhoe Hill Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Linden Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published