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Highbury Infant School and Nursery
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Standhill Road, Hitchin SG4 9AG · highbury.herts.sch.uk · 01462 630500
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Nov 2022
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hertfordshire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 195
- 81% of 240 places
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 9.3%
- First language not English
- 12.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Hertfordshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 43 families put the school first and 47 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
Demand for places
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 47 | 43 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 60 | 50 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 51 | 0.9 | 96% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 58 | 44 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 60 | 54 | 0.9 | 96% |
Last distance offered
| Reception | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | All | |
| September 2025 | All | |
| September 2024 | 0.99 mi1.60 km | |
| September 2022 | 0.37 mi0.59 km | |
Every applicant was offered a place (48 allocations for 60 places).
Every applicant was offered a place (1 children with no preference met were placed there).
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 2 November 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Highbury Infant School and Nursery was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 1 Nov 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2013
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jun 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Nov 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding
What parents said
99% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (83 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 99%
- Replies
- 83
- 39% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 58% who raised concerns
based on the 20% who had a child bullied