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Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Swing Gate Lane, Berkhamsted HP4 2LJ · swinggate.herts.sch.uk · 01442 863913
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Dec 2022
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hertfordshire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 144
- 80% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 5%
- First language not English
- 13.2%
- 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, 37 families put the school first and 44 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 | 44 | 37 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 40 | 33 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 45 | 39 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 31 | 31 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 36 | 32 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 14 December 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 13 Dec 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, May 2012
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
May 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Mar 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement
What parents said
97% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (87 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 97%
- Replies
- 87
- 54% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 60% who raised concerns
based on the 16% who had a child bullied