Dobcroft Nursery Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Sheffield
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.699 miles
Published by Sheffield City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Dobcroft Nursery Infant School is a primary school in Sheffield for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Sheffield has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Dobcroft Nursery 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 | 0.699 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last Reception place in 2026 went to a child 0.699 miles away, the 8th shortest of 25 Sheffield primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- That distance was nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2020; it swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2023 to 2024.
- Reception 2026 drew 101 first-choice applications for 90 offers; 89 went to first-choice families, and 12 first-choice families (12%) were not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility is 3.3% of pupils, against a middle figure of 15.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sheffield.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sheffield schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Pingle Road, Sheffield, S7 2LN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Sheffield
- Pupils on roll
- 303 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 101 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 89 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 Sheffield.
- Dobcroft Junior School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Good
- Clifford All Saints CofE Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Holt House Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Carter Knowle Junior School 0.8 mi Standards maintained
- Ecclesall Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greystones Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Abbey Lane Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade