Merry Hill Infant School and Nursery

Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Bushey, Hertfordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.39 miles

Nearest School · Published by Hertfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.38

0.36

0.43

0.33

0.34

0.39

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Merry Hill Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Bushey, Hertfordshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 December 2023. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Merry Hill Infant School and Nursery 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	0.39 mi
Reception 2025	0.34 mi
Reception 2024	0.33 mi
Reception 2023	0.33 mi
Reception 2022	0.43 mi
Reception 2021	0.43 mi
Reception 2020	0.36 mi
Reception 2019	0.38 mi
Reception 2018	0.33 mi
Reception 2017	0.34 mi
Reception 2016	0.36 mi
Reception 2015	0.33 mi

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

What the figures show

For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place as living nearest to the school lived 0.39 miles away, further than in 2025 and further than in 2015.
Merry Hill had 43 first-choice applications for 54 offers for Reception 2026, which is 0.8 first choices per offer, the 56th lowest of 359 Hertfordshire primary schools.
Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 11 offers went to families who ranked the school second or lower.
The school has 17.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hertfordshire.

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

Key facts

Address: School Lane, Bushey, WD23 1ST
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–7
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 166 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 11.4% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 17.6

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

Ofsted

Good Inspected 5 December 2023

Strengths

“Pupils are proud to attend Merry Hill.”
“Staff warmly welcome pupils each day with a happy face.”
“The school prioritises pupils’ well-being.”

To improve

“In a couple of subjects, the curriculum is not as well implemented.”
“Therefore, in these subjects, pupils do not always learn as well as the school would like.”
“For a few pupils with SEND, however, lesson adaptations are not as specific as they need to be.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 54 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 Hertfordshire.

Ashfield Junior School 0.1 mi Good
Bushey Heath Primary School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
Little Reddings Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Hartsbourne Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Bournehall Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
Bushey Manor Junior School 1.1 mi Good
St Meryl School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published