Hyde Heath Infant School

Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Amersham, Buckinghamshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

Every applicant was offered a place

From Buckinghamshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

2.13

2.03

1.94

2.95

All

2.04

All

20192020202120222023202420252026

All: every applicant was offered a place.

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Hyde Heath Infant School is a primary school in Amersham, Buckinghamshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 February 2024. Buckinghamshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.

Hyde Heath 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	Every applicant was offered a place
Reception 2024	2.04 mi
Reception 2023	Every applicant was offered a place
Reception 2022	2.949 mi
Reception 2021	1.937 mi
Reception 2020	2.032 mi
Reception 2019	2.128 mi
Reception 2018	2.412 mi

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, but places ran out in 6 of the 8 earlier years, and the last distance swung sharply between some years.
Reception 2026 drew 11 first-choice applications for 14 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer, the 14th lowest of 153 Buckinghamshire primary schools.
Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
There were 11.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Buckinghamshire.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Buckinghamshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Weedon Hill, Hyde Heath, Amersham, HP6 5RW
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–7
Council: Buckinghamshire
Pupils on roll: 51 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 15.7% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 11.8

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Good Inspected 27 February 2024

Strengths

“Pupils are safe, happy and have wonderful attitudes to their learning.”
“Pupils know each other well and have strong and positive relationships with staff across the school.”
“Strong, positive values are at the heart of this school community.”

To improve

“However, staff expertise in some subject areas is not as secure.”
“This means that in certain aspects of the curriculum, some pupils do not learn and achieve as well as they could.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 11 first-preference applications, 14 offers in total, 11 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 Buckinghamshire.

Little Missenden Church of England School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
Our Lady's Catholic Primary School 1.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
Thomas Harding Junior School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade
Great Missenden CofE Combined School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
Chartridge Combined School 2.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Elmtree Infant and Nursery School 2.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Little Kingshill Combined School 2.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
St Mary's CofE Primary School, Amersham 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published