Highbury Infant School and Nursery

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

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.60 miles

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

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.34

1.23

0.66

0.63

0.57

0.60

0.66

0.60

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Highbury Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Hitchin, Hertfordshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 2 November 2022. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Highbury 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	0.60 mi
Reception 2025	0.66 mi
Reception 2024	0.60 mi
Reception 2023	0.57 mi
Reception 2022	0.63 mi
Reception 2021	0.66 mi
Reception 2020	1.23 mi
Reception 2019	0.34 mi
Reception 2018	0.41 mi
Reception 2017	0.75 mi
Reception 2016	0.60 mi
Reception 2015	1.20 mi

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

What the figures show

The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 under one of its admission criteria lived 0.60 miles away.
The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and in 2015, though it swung sharply between some years.
Reception 2026 had 43 first-choice applications for 47 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
The school has 18.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.7 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: Standhill Road, Hitchin, SG4 9AG
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–7
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 195 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 8.7% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 18.6

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

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 2 November 2022

Strengths

“Children and pupils at Highbury are animated, inquisitive, kind and very well behaved.”
“They develop these characteristics because teaching is interesting and adults themselves model fairness, kindness and good manners.”
“Children and pupils feel secure and are safe.”

To improve

“However, in some wider subjects, expectations for the quality of pupils’ work could be even more ambitious.”
“Alongside some excellent practice, staff very occasionally use alternative teaching materials that are not as effective.”
“However, sometimes the emphasis is more on completion of activities rather than on the quality of pupils’ responses.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 December 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 47 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.

Whitehill Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Hitchin 0.5 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
William Ransom Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy 0.7 mi Standards maintained
Samuel Lucas Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
Mary Exton Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
Oughton Primary and Nursery School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Strathmore Infant and Nursery School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published