Icknield Walk First School

Primary · Community school · Ages 3–9 · Royston, Hertfordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.38 miles

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

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.42

0.51

0.54

0.47

0.53

0.46

0.54

0.38

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Icknield Walk First School is a primary school in Royston, Hertfordshire for ages 3–9 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 25 March 2025. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Icknield Walk First 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	0.38 mi
Reception 2025	0.54 mi
Reception 2024	0.46 mi
Reception 2023	0.53 mi
Reception 2022	0.47 mi
Reception 2021	0.54 mi
Reception 2020	0.51 mi
Reception 2019	0.42 mi
Reception 2018	0.51 mi
Reception 2017	0.49 mi
Reception 2016	0.54 mi
Reception 2015	1.37 mi

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

What the figures show

For children whose nearest school it was, the last offered a Reception 2026 place lived 0.38 miles away, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 12 years.
There were 55 first-choice applications for 59 offers for Reception 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
Free school meals eligibility is 11%, against a middle figure of 15.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hertfordshire, and there are 24.4 pupils per teacher against 19.6.

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: Poplar Drive, Royston, SG8 7EZ
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–9
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 335 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 11% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 24.4

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

Ofsted

Not judged Inspected 25 March 2025

Strengths

“Pupils attend school with enthusiasm, eager to learn and engage with teachers and peers.”
“They know they can speak up and share their thoughts, feelings and opinions.”
“This is because staff provide thoughtful guidance to ensure pupils feel safe, secure and happy.”

To improve

“However, in a few subjects, curriculum thinking is not as clear as in other subjects.”
“Where this is the case, learning is not as well thought out and sequenced.”
“Consequently, pupils do not build up as secure an understanding as they do in the rest of the curriculum.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 55 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 55 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.

St Mary Roman Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
Studlands Rise First School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
Tannery Drift School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
Roman Way Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
Barley (VA) Church of England First School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
Reed First School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
Therfield First School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
Barkway VA Church of England First School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published