Widcombe Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–7 · Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.966 miles
Published by Bath and North East Somerset Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Widcombe Infant School is a primary school in Bath, Bath and North East Somerset for ages 5–7 (academy converter). Bath and North East Somerset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Widcombe 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 | 0.966 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
- For Reception 2026 the last distance offered was 0.966 miles, 6th shortest of 18 Bath and North East Somerset primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.74 miles).
- That 2026 distance was about the same as in 2025 and nearer than in 2018, though it swung sharply in some years, most of all between 2019 and 2020.
- Reception 2026 drew 76 first-choice applications for 60 offers, 1.3 per offer and the 4th highest of 57 Bath and North East Somerset primary schools.
- In 2026, 58 Reception offers went to first-choice families, and 18 first-choice families (24%) were not offered a place.
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
- Archway Street, Bath, BA2 4JG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Pupils on roll
- 182 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 6 January 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this highly inclusive and friendly school.”
- “They benefit from the warm welcome they receive from staff.”
- “They forge positive relationships with pupils and their families.”
To improve
- “However, pupils do not achieve as well as they could in some wider curriculum subjects.”
- “This is because they are not supported fully to deepen their understanding and make links to their prior learning.”
- “However, on occasion, some learning activities do not match pupils’ needs as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 February 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 76 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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.
- Widcombe CofE Junior School 0.0 mi Not judged
- Bathwick St Mary Church School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Andrew's Church School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oldfield Park Infant School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Mulberry Park Educate Together Primary Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Moorlands Infant School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Moorlands Junior School 1.2 mi Good