William Austin Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Luton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Luton Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
William Austin Infant School is a primary school in Luton for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 16 October 2024. Luton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
William Austin 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 26 of the 38 other Luton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 95 first-choice applications for 100 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 19.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 23 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Luton.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 19.2% of pupils, below the middle figure of 23.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Luton.
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
- Culverhouse Road, Luton, LU3 1PZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Luton
- Pupils on roll
- 313 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 16 October 2024
Strengths
- “The school’s core values of happiness, caring and respect are woven through everything pupils do at William Austin Infant School.”
- “Pupils arrive promptly each day, keen to learn and play in the school’s stimulating environments.”
- “Adults have high expectations and pupils rise to these.”
To improve
- “Curriculum leaders in these subjects are still developing the way they use it to identify and make improvements to the curriculum.”
- “As a result, pupils do not always learn as well as the school would like them to.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 95 first-preference applications, 100 offers in total, 95 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.
- William Austin Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Icknield Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- River Bank Primary School 0.6 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Denbigh Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bushmead Primary & Nursery School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Norton Road Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Warden Hill Junior School 0.9 mi Not judged