Heronshaw School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · 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 🔒
Heronshaw School is a primary school in Milton Keynes for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 22 November 2022. Milton Keynes has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Heronshaw 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 | 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 67 of the 77 other Milton Keynes primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- There were 33 first-choice applications for 36 Reception offers in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- With 29.8 pupils per teacher, it sits above the middle figure of 21 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Milton Keynes.
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
- Lichfield Down, Walnut Tree, Milton Keynes, MK7 7PG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Milton Keynes
- Pupils on roll
- 161 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 29.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 22 November 2022
Strengths
- “Staff know each pupil well and put them at the heart of everything they do.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for all.”
- “The school motto of ‘Inspire, Grow, Achieve’ is woven seamlessly into every aspect of school life.”
To improve
- “Leaders recognise that pupils who are struggling to learn to read need more frequent opportunities to work with expert staff and to read books matched more consistently to the sounds that they know.”
- “Leaders’ records for pupils with SEND do not always reflect the high-quality class-based provision they receive or demonstrate that parents’ and pupils’ views are fully taken into account.”
- “Although overall school attendance is high and school leaders work hard to improve individual pupil attendance, some pupils, including some of the most vulnerable, remain persistently absent.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 33 first-preference applications, 36 offers in total, 33 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.
- Heronsgate School 0.0 mi Good
- Heronshill School and Nursery 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wavendon Gate School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Bow Brickhill CofE VA Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lift Charles Warren 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Monkston Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Langland Community School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published