Moorlands Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–7 · Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.822 miles
Published by Bath and North East Somerset Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Moorlands Infant School is a primary school in Bath, Bath and North East Somerset for ages 5–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 16 May 2023. Bath and North East Somerset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Moorlands Infant 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 | 0.822 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 1 earlier figure.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026's last distance offered was 0.822 miles, 5th shortest of 18 Bath and North East Somerset primary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 1.74 miles.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2024; it has swung sharply, most of all from 2024 to 2025.
- Reception 2026 drew 64 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 56 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families (13%) were not offered a place.
- There are 30 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Bath and North East Somerset.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bath and North East Somerset schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Moorfields Road, Bath, BA2 2DQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Pupils on roll
- 177 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 30
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 16 May 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school and say teachers keep them safe.”
- “They are proud of their school and treat each other as equals.”
- “Pupils say that the school values, brought together under the acronym ‘LEARN’, help them to be better learners.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, leaders recognise that the curriculum requires further consideration.”
- “Occasionally, pupils’ learning is not well sequenced.”
- “As a result, pupils do not develop a deep enough knowledge of important concepts.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 July 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 64 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 56 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 Bath and North East Somerset.
- Moorlands Junior School 0.1 mi Good
- St John's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oldfield Park Junior School 0.4 mi Standards maintained
- St Philip's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oldfield Park Infant School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Roundhill Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Martin's Garden Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mulberry Park Educate Together Primary Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published