Fawbert and Barnard Infants' School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Sawbridgeworth, 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)
Fawbert and Barnard Infants' School is a primary school in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 12 March 2024. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Fawbert and Barnard Infants' 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 | 0.60 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 0.46 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 0.60 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 0.67 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 0.60 mi |
| Reception 2021 | 0.55 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 0.57 mi |
| Reception 2019 | 0.92 mi |
| Reception 2018 | 0.60 mi |
| Reception 2017 | 0.58 mi |
| Reception 2016 | 0.56 mi |
| Reception 2015 | 0.41 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 for whom it was the nearest school lived 0.60 miles away, further than in 2025 and in 2015.
- Reception 2026 drew 59 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 57 offers went to first-choice families, and 2 first-choice families (3%) were not offered a place.
- 38 of the 123 Reception 2026 applications (31%) came from families living outside Hertfordshire, and 20 offers went to them.
- Ofsted rated it Outstanding on 12 March 2024; the 8 nearest primary schools in Hertfordshire have 6 Good and 2 no current grade.
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
- Knight Street, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Hertfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 211 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 12 March 2024
Strengths
- “Simple, three-word mantras support pupils to thrive and be successful at this delightful school.”
- “From Nursery through to Year 2, pupils show they are ‘ready, respectful and safe’ at the start of every activity.”
- “They live out the school’s core values of ‘respect, ambition and perseverance’ in their highly positive attitudes to school life.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 59 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 57 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.
- Reedings Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
- Mandeville Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Spellbrook CofE Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- High Wych Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Richard Whittington Primary School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thorley Hill Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Manor Fields Primary School 3.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Thorn Grove Primary School 3.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
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