Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery

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

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.54 miles

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

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.51

0.55

0.44

0.40

0.37

0.61

0.43

0.54

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Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 December 2022. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Swing Gate 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	0.54 mi
Reception 2025	0.43 mi
Reception 2024	0.61 mi
Reception 2023	0.37 mi
Reception 2022	0.40 mi
Reception 2021	0.44 mi
Reception 2020	0.55 mi
Reception 2019	0.51 mi
Reception 2018	0.49 mi
Reception 2017	0.52 mi
Reception 2016	0.56 mi
Reception 2015	0.60 mi

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

What the figures show

For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.54 miles from the school, under one of its admission criteria, further out than in 2025 and nearer than in 2015.
The Reception 2026 entry had 37 first-choice applications for 44 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
4.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 9.3% 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: Swing Gate Lane, Berkhamsted, HP4 2LJ
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–7
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 144 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 4.2% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 17.9

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

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 14 December 2022

Strengths

“The school is a friendly community.”
“Pupils give those new to the school and visitors a warm welcome.”
“Pupils and staff have positive relationships.”

To improve

“In a few subjects, leaders have not broken down complex subject knowledge into smaller parts to help pupils learn it.”
“In these subjects, teachers are less effective in planning sequences of lessons that help pupils to have a secure understanding of more complex ideas.”
“However, a small number of pupils’ attendance and punctuality are not as good as they should be.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 February 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 37 first-preference applications, 44 offers in total, 37 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.

The Thomas Coram Church of England School 0.4 mi Good
Victoria Church of England Infant and Nursery School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Greenway Primary and Nursery School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Bridgewater Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Westfield Primary School 1.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
Potten End CofE Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
St Mary's CofE Primary School, Northchurch 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published