Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery

Community school·Infant school Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire·HP4 2LJ

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Swing Gate 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%

37 first choices, 44 places

First choices per place

0.84

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 44 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8920221.0020230.8720240.8220250.842026

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

Every child who put Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery 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: 158
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

6.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

10.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

19.0%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.8%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

24.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

16.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,158

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

The Thomas Coram Church of England School Berkhamsted · 0.7 mi 51.2 St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Berkhamsted · 1.1 mi 51.7 Greenway Primary and Nursery School Berkhamsted · 1.1 mi 63.0 Bridgewater Primary School Berkhamsted · 1.3 mi 60.4 Westfield Primary School Berkhamsted · 1.4 mi 24.2 Potten End CofE Primary School Berkhamsted · 1.5 mi 46.5 St Mary's CofE Primary School, Northchurch Berkhamsted · 1.7 mi 46.1 Pixies Hill Primary School Hemel Hempstead · 2.4 mi 54.6

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 Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery

Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 158 pupils aged 3 to 7 attend the school.

Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 37 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.8%. There are about 16.9 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 6% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Swing Gate 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.