Icknield Infant and Nursery School

Community school·Infant school Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire·SG6 4UN

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Icknield 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%

38 first choices, 51 places

First choices per place

0.74

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 51 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.15

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8820220.9620230.8620240.9020250.742026

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

Every child who put Icknield 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).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes

Requires improvement

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Requires improvement

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 215
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

27.8%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

13.0%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

26.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

9.3%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

29.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.5

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,917

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Wilbury Junior School Letchworth Garden City · 0.1 mi 49.1 St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School Letchworth Garden City · 0.8 mi 48.5 Pixmore Junior School Letchworth · 0.9 mi 27.7 Stonehill School Letchworth Garden City · 0.9 mi 47.7 The Grange Academy Letchworth Garden City · 1.2 mi 61.4 Lordship Farm Primary School Letchworth Garden City · 1.4 mi 43.9 Garden City Academy Letchworth Garden City · 1.5 mi 50.2 Norton St Nicholas CofE (VA) Primary School Letchworth Garden City · 1.6 mi 58.2

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

Icknield Infant and Nursery School at a glance

Located in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, Icknield Infant and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 215 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Icknield Infant and Nursery School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 38 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 9.3%. There are about 19.5 pupils per teacher. Icknield 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.