Hillshott Infant School and Nursery

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

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.66 miles

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

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.57

0.60

0.65

0.53

0.71

0.64

0.66

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Hillshott Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Letchworth, Hertfordshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 21 January 2025. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Hillshott 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	0.66 mi
Reception 2025	0.64 mi
Reception 2024	0.71 mi
Reception 2023	0.53 mi
Reception 2022	0.65 mi
Reception 2021	0.60 mi
Reception 2020	0.60 mi
Reception 2019	0.57 mi
Reception 2018	0.50 mi
Reception 2017	0.53 mi
Reception 2016	0.43 mi
Reception 2015	0.38 mi

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

What the figures show

Reception 2026 had 53 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 46 offers went to first-choice families, and 7 first-choice families were not offered a place.
For Reception 2026, 13 of the offers went to families who ranked the school second or lower.
In Reception 2026, the last child offered a place under its nearest-school criterion lived 0.66 miles away, about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2015, with sharp swings between some years.
19.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hertfordshire is 30.7%.

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: Ridge Avenue, Letchworth, SG6 1QE
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–7
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 202 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 19.3% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 22.2

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

Ofsted

Not judged Inspected 21 January 2025

Strengths

“Pupils come to school happily and secure that everyone is welcome and included here.”
“Pupils trust staff to listen to any worries they may have and to help them.”
“From the early years, children develop confidence and independence as they move through the school.”

To improve

“A few pupils, who are struggling with their reading, do not get enough opportunities to practise their phonics in writing.”
“Sometimes teachers give them tasks that are too ambitious and this slows these pupils’ progress.”
“However, in a few subjects teaching is not consistently effective.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 53 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 46 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.

Pixmore Junior School 0.3 mi Not judged
Garden City Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Wilbury Junior School 0.9 mi Good
Icknield Infant and Nursery School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
Lordship Farm Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Northfields Infants and Nursery School 1.1 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
St Mary's Junior Mixed School 1.1 mi Good
St Mary's Infants' School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published