Strathmore Infant and Nursery School

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

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.55 miles

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

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.62

0.46

0.48

0.46

0.56

0.59

0.58

0.55

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Strathmore Infant and Nursery School 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 28 June 2023. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Strathmore Infant and Nursery 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	0.55 mi
Reception 2025	0.58 mi
Reception 2024	0.59 mi
Reception 2023	0.56 mi
Reception 2022	0.46 mi
Reception 2021	0.48 mi
Reception 2020	0.46 mi
Reception 2019	0.62 mi
Reception 2018	0.62 mi
Reception 2017	0.60 mi
Reception 2016	0.60 mi
Reception 2015	0.58 mi

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

What the figures show

The Reception 2026 last distance offered, for children for whom this was the nearest school, was 0.55 miles, about the same as in 2025 and in 2015.
In every year with a published distance, from 2015 to 2026, the last distance offered stayed close to the year before.
For Reception 2026 there were 61 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 58 went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (5%) were not offered a place.
Free school meal eligibility is 3.5% and pupils per teacher 18.4, against middle figures of 10.3% and 21.4 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: Old Hale Way, Hitchin, SG5 1XR
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–7
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 198 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 3.5% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 18.4

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

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 28 June 2023

Strengths

“Strathmore is a friendly and happy school where pupils thrive and ‘everyone is welcome’.”
“Pupils like coming to school and attend well.”
“They know their ‘trusted five’ adults who they can talk to if they have any worries.”

To improve

“However, leaders have not ensured that this checking of what pupils know and remember is as well developed in other subjects.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 61 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 58 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.

Our Lady Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy 0.5 mi Standards maintained
Oughton Primary and Nursery School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Ickleford Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Samuel Lucas Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Hitchin 1.0 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
Highover Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
Highbury Infant School and Nursery 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published