Heronshill School and Nursery
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Milton Keynes
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Milton Keynes City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Heronshill School and Nursery is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 March 2023. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Heronshill School and Nursery 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026, every applicant was offered a place, as was the case at 67 of the 77 other Milton Keynes primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 13 first-choice applications for 14 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In January 2026, 9.5% of pupils were eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes is 28.8%.
- The school has 16 pupils per teacher, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes is 22.1.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Milton Keynes schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Birdlip Lane, Kents Hill, Milton Keynes, MK7 6HD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 74 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 22 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils thoroughly enjoy being part of this welcoming school.”
- “They have firm friendships and feel supported by the staff.”
- “Warm relationships between pupils and staff permeate the school.”
To improve
- “However, in a small minority of subjects, including mathematics, the sequence in which pupils should learn new knowledge is not ordered well enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 13 first-preference applications, 14 offers in total, 13 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 Milton Keynes.
- Heronshaw School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Heronsgate School 0.7 mi Good
- Monkston Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wavendon Gate School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Lift Charles Warren 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Langland Community School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Middleton Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published