Hillborough Infant and Nursery School

Community school·Infant school Luton·LU1 5EZ

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Hillborough Infant and Nursery School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

90%

89 first choices, 90 places

First choices per place

0.99

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

184

any preference, for 90 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.08

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0420220.9920231.0620241.0720250.992026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Luton does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Hillborough Infant and Nursery School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 302
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

21.8%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

59.3%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

13.6%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.4%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

16.8%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

21.5

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,759

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Hillborough Junior School Luton · 0.0 mi 83.4 Farley Junior Academy Luton · 0.3 mi 53.3 Tennyson Road Primary School Luton · 0.5 mi 57.8 St Margaret of Scotland Catholic Primary School Luton · 0.6 mi 63.9 Dallow Primary School Luton · 0.6 mi 42.1 Cutenhoe Hill Primary School ( Formerly Surrey Street) Luton · 0.8 mi 60.0 The Linden Academy Luton · 0.9 mi 49.8 Beech Hill Community Primary School Luton · 1.0 mi 37.7

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Hillborough Infant and Nursery School at a glance

Located in Luton, Hillborough Infant and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 302 pupils aged 3 to 7.

90% of the families who made Hillborough Infant and Nursery School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 5.4%. There are about 21.5 pupils per teacher. Hillborough Infant and Nursery School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.