Nascot Wood Infant and Nursery School

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

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.44 miles

Published by Hertfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.23

0.24

0.32

0.30

0.37

0.30

0.34

0.44

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Nascot Wood 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 31 October 2023. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Nascot Wood 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	0.44 mi
Reception 2025	0.34 mi
Reception 2024	0.30 mi
Reception 2023	0.37 mi
Reception 2022	0.30 mi
Reception 2021	0.32 mi
Reception 2020	0.24 mi
Reception 2019	0.23 mi
Reception 2018	0.36 mi
Reception 2017	0.17 mi
Reception 2016	0.13 mi
Reception 2015	0.13 mi

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

What the figures show

In Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.44 miles away, the 123rd shortest of 275 Hertfordshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.46 miles).
In Reception, the 2026 last distance was further than in 2025 and further than in 2015, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 12 years.
Reception 2026 had 103 first-choice applications for 59 offers, 1.7 first choices per offer, the 4th highest of 359 Hertfordshire primary schools.
In Reception 2026, 57 offers went to first-choice families, and 46 first-choice families (45%) were not offered a place; 2 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: Nascot Wood Road, Watford, WD17 4YT
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–7
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 202 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 4% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 20.3

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

Ofsted

Good Inspected 31 October 2023

Strengths

“Pupils happily attend this welcoming school.”
“They love to learn and enjoy the exciting activities that the school provides.”
“Pupils enthusiastically talk about the animal characters staff use to guide them towards being better learners.”

To improve

“In a few subjects, the curriculum plans have broad learning objectives.”
“They do not specify the small steps of knowledge that pupils need from lesson to lesson and across the year groups.”
“This makes it harder for teachers to adapt teaching to individual needs, and they cannot check pupils’ understanding accurately.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 103 first-preference applications, 59 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.

Nascot Wood Junior School 0.1 mi Outstanding
Beechfield School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
Cassiobury Infant and Nursery School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
Cassiobury Junior School 0.6 mi Good
Lanchester Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
The Orchard Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Parkgate Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
Cherry Tree Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published