Cassiobury Infant and Nursery School

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

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.46 miles

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

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.51

0.57

0.44

0.43

0.51

0.46

0.35

0.46

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Cassiobury Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Watford, Hertfordshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 October 2023. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Cassiobury 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	0.46 mi
Reception 2025	0.35 mi
Reception 2024	0.46 mi
Reception 2023	0.51 mi
Reception 2022	0.43 mi
Reception 2021	0.44 mi
Reception 2020	0.57 mi
Reception 2019	0.51 mi
Reception 2018	0.46 mi
Reception 2017	0.55 mi
Reception 2016	0.35 mi
Reception 2015	0.43 mi

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

What the figures show

79 first-choice applications for 89 Reception offers in 2026: 69 offers went to first-choice families, and 10 first-choice families were not offered a place.
Reception 2026: the last child offered a place for whom it was the nearest school lived 0.46 miles away, further than in 2025.
3.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 9.2% 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: Bellmount Wood Avenue, Watford, WD17 3PE
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–7
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 310 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 3.2% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 21

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

Ofsted

Good Inspected 11 October 2023

Strengths

“Pupils love attending this happy and kind school.”
“They enjoy learning because the school provides many broad and interesting educational opportunities.”
“Pupils and adults show respect and kindness to one another.”

To improve

“Where they are not used consistently, or staff subject knowledge is less secure, the pace of learning slows, and some pupils come off task or do not carry out the tasks as leaders intended.”
“This can hinder those pupils’ progress in some subjects.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 79 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 69 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.

Cassiobury Junior School 0.1 mi Good
Nascot Wood Junior School 0.5 mi Outstanding
Nascot Wood Infant and Nursery School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
Beechfield School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
Lanchester Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
The Orchard Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Holy Rood Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
Chater Infant School 1.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published