Mount Pleasant Lane Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · St Albans, Hertfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.71 miles
Nearest School · Published by Hertfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)
Mount Pleasant Lane Primary School is a primary school in St Albans, Hertfordshire for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 5 October 2022. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Mount Pleasant Lane Primary 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 | 0.71 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 0.74 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 0.62 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 0.77 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 0.65 mi |
| Reception 2021 | 0.66 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 0.73 mi |
| Reception 2019 | 0.73 mi |
| Reception 2018 | 0.73 mi |
| Reception 2017 | 0.83 mi |
| Reception 2016 | 0.83 mi |
| Reception 2015 | 0.74 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 53% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered, for children whose nearest school it is, was 0.71 miles; it has stayed close to the year before in every published year.
- Reception 2026 had 20 first-choice applications for 22 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- At 16.5%, the share of pupils eligible for free school meals is below the 23.9% middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hertfordshire.
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
- Mount Pleasant Lane, Bricket Wood, St Albans, AL2 3XA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Hertfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 200 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 October 2022
Strengths
- “Mount Pleasant Lane Primary School is a kind and caring place where pupils want to do their best.”
- “It is broadened through trips and visits, for example, to the local river and Windsor Castle.”
- “Pupils are happy in the school.”
To improve
- “They say bullying does happen occasionally, but that it doesn’t happen as much as it did.”
- “In a small number of subjects this is not the case.”
- “Where this does not happen as well, pupils do not always remember the information that is crucial for their next steps of learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 November 2022 (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) | 53% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 20 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.
- St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Coates Way JMI and Nursery School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Alban Wood Primary School and Nursery 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- The Grove Academy 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Leavesden JMI School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Kingsway Infants' School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kingsway Junior School 1.6 mi Good
- Abbots Langley School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
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