Garden City Academy

Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–11 · Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

1.34 miles

Published by Hertfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

1.78

1.66

1.06

0.52

3.49

1.32

2.34

1.34

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Garden City Academy is a primary school in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 June 2024. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Garden City Academy 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	1.34 mi
Reception 2025	2.34 mi
Reception 2024	1.32 mi
Reception 2023	3.49 mi
Reception 2022	0.52 mi
Reception 2021	1.06 mi
Reception 2020	1.66 mi
Reception 2019	1.78 mi
Reception 2018	0.34 mi
Reception 2017	0.30 mi
Reception 2016	0.43 mi
Reception 2015	0.32 mi

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

What the figures show

For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.34 miles away, the 18th longest of 275 Hertfordshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.46 miles).
Free school meal eligibility is 45.1% of pupils, against a middle figure of 19.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hertfordshire.
Reception 2026 had 25 first-choice applications for 29 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).

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: Radburn Way, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 2JZ
Type: Academy sponsor led
Phase: Primary
Ages: 2–11
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 215 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 45.1% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 22.8

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

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 6 June 2024

Strengths

“Garden City Academy is a happy school.”
“Pupils speak proudly of the ‘GCA way’.”
“They say confidently that, ‘This is the way we do it here.”

To improve

“In recent times, significant staffing changes interrupted aspects of ongoing improvement planning.”
“These pupils often make good progress from when they join the school, but sometimes they are less successful in national tests.”
“This means that, in a few subjects, the curriculum is still developing as the school evaluates what is working well and what needs to continue to improve.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Exam results

Measure	School	England
Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25)	61%	62%

Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 25 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 25 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.

Pixmore Junior School 0.6 mi Not judged
Hillshott Infant School and Nursery 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
Lordship Farm Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Mary's Junior Mixed School 0.8 mi Good
St Mary's Infants' School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
St John Roman Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
Norton St Nicholas CofE (VA) Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published