Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery School

Community school·Infant school St Albans, Hertfordshire·AL1 4AP

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Bernards Heath 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

100%

52 first choices, 55 places

First choices per place

0.94

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

144

any preference, for 55 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.09

00.511.5

1 per place

1.1420220.9420230.9720240.8520250.942026

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

Every child who put Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 291
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

6.7%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

22.0%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

8.2%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

8.6%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

22.2

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,310

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Bernards Heath Junior School St Albans · 0.2 mi 70.5 Maple Primary School St Albans · 0.4 mi 81.4 Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School St Albans · 0.5 mi 60.0 Alban City School St Albans · 0.5 mi 68.7 Aboyne Lodge Junior Mixed and Infant School St Albans · 0.6 mi 62.7 St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & Nursery St Albans · 0.8 mi 70.5 Fleetville Junior School St Albans · 0.9 mi 83.4 Margaret Wix Primary School St Albans · 0.9 mi 54.8

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

Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery School at a glance

Located in St Albans, Hertfordshire, Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 291 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery School their first choice was offered one of its 55 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 4.6%. There are about 22.2 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 7% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Bernards Heath 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.