Heelands School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Milton Keynes
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Milton Keynes City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Heelands School is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 4 June 2024. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Heelands 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 |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 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
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as was the case at 67 of the 77 other Milton Keynes primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Although every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, places ran out (a last distance was published) in 2 of the 4 earlier years.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 18 first-choice applications for 21 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 21.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Milton Keynes schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Glovers Lane, Heelands, Heelands School, Milton Keynes, MK13 7QL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 71 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 4 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this school.”
- “They have a strong understanding of the school’s values of ‘friendship, respect, self-belief, cooperation, challenge and responsibility’.”
- “Pupils demonstrate this in all they do.”
To improve
- “However, at times staff do not all have the confidence to make the right adaptations in lessons to meet pupils’ needs as fully as they could.”
- “They are not always checking carefully that activities gradually build on pupils’ prior knowledge.”
- “This means that some pupils are not making as much progress as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 18 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 18 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 Milton Keynes.
- Priory Common School 0.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bradwell Village School 0.1 mi Good
- Summerfield School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Germander Park School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Stanton School 0.8 mi School remains Outstanding
- Pepper Hill School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Southwood School 1.0 mi School remains Good
- New Bradwell Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published