Highbury Infant School and Nursery

Community school·Infant school Hitchin, Hertfordshire·SG4 9AG

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Highbury Infant School and Nursery 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

100%

43 first choices, 47 places

First choices per place

0.92

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

136

any preference, for 47 places

Last place offered lived

0.99 mi

straight line, 2025 intake · 1597 m

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.08

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9020220.7620230.8520240.8320250.922026

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

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2025 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it. In 2026 the school was not oversubscribed, so no distance limit applied.

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

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 214
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

8.4%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

10.3%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

11.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

0.5%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.1%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

9.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

23.3

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,340

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Whitehill Junior School Hitchin · 0.3 mi 64.3 St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Hitchin Hitchin · 0.5 mi 44.2 William Ransom Primary School Hitchin · 0.6 mi 60.0 Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy Hitchin · 0.7 mi 52.5 Samuel Lucas Junior Mixed and Infant School Hitchin · 0.7 mi 77.9 Mary Exton Primary School Hitchin · 0.9 mi 34.2 Oughton Primary and Nursery School Hitchin · 1.1 mi 34.7 Highover Junior Mixed and Infant School Hitchin · 1.1 mi 61.7

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

About Highbury Infant School and Nursery

Highbury Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 214 pupils aged 3 to 7 attend the school.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Highbury Infant School and Nursery their first choice was offered one of its 47 Reception places. In 2025 the furthest child offered a place lived 0.99 miles from the school in a straight line, according to the council's published allocation figures; the distance changes every year with demand. Overall pupil absence was 4.1%. There are about 23.3 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 8% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Highbury Infant School and Nursery 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.