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Icknield Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Archers Way, Letchworth Garden City SG6 4UN · icknieldinfants.herts.sch.uk · 01462 620406
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jun 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hertfordshire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.7
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 206
- 60% of 342 places
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 26.7%
- First language not English
- 9.7%
- 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, 38 families put the school first and 51 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 51 | 38 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 57 | 51 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 57 | 49 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 69 | 66 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 69 | 61 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Icknield Infant and Nursery School on 3 June 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 3 Jun 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Feb 2023
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Feb 2023Requires improvement
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jan 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Sept 2012Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (57 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 57
- 27% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 82% who raised concerns
based on the 23% who had a child bullied