Kingsway Infants' School

Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Watford, Hertfordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.55 miles

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

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.44

0.56

0.49

0.52

0.49

0.47

0.48

0.55

20192020202120222023202420252026

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Kingsway Infants' School is a primary school in Watford, Hertfordshire for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 January 2023. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Kingsway 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	0.55 mi
Reception 2025	0.48 mi
Reception 2024	0.47 mi
Reception 2023	0.49 mi
Reception 2022	0.52 mi
Reception 2021	0.49 mi
Reception 2020	0.56 mi
Reception 2019	0.44 mi
Reception 2018	0.49 mi
Reception 2017	0.52 mi
Reception 2016	0.55 mi
Reception 2015	0.49 mi

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

What the figures show

In 2026 the last Reception place offered to children for whom this was their nearest school went to a child living 0.55 miles away.
That 2026 distance was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2015, and the figure swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2019 to 2020.
Reception 2026 drew 47 first-choice applications for 53 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.

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: North Approach, Watford, WD25 0ES
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 5–7
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 171 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 18.1% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 20.4

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

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 20 January 2023

Strengths

“This is a happy and welcoming school.”
“Pupils benefit from positive relationships with caring staff.”
“These relationships help pupils, and children in the early years, to feel happy and safe.”

To improve

“While this is the case in some subjects, such as history and music, leaders have not checked the impact of the delivered curriculum well enough.”
“This limits leaders’ overview of how well pupils know what they have been taught in these subjects.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 47 first-preference applications, 53 offers in total, 47 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.

Kingsway Junior School 0.1 mi Good
Leavesden JMI School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
Cherry Tree Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
Alban Wood Primary School and Nursery 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
The Orchard Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Beechfield School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School 1.0 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
Holy Rood Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published