The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Highbury Infant School and Nursery

URN 117113 · Primary · Community school · Hertfordshire

Standhill Road, Hitchin, SG4 9AG

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 50 families named Highbury Infant School and Nursery as their first preference, and the school made 60 offers.

That is 0.83 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 11% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 11% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.91 in 2021–2022 and 0.84 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 50 149 60 0.83
2024 51 197 60 0.85
2023 44 154 58 0.76
2022 54 185 60 0.90
2021 54 180 59 0.92
2020 50 208 60 0.83
2019 74 202 60 1.23
2018 71 218 60 1.18
2017 57 187 59 0.97
2016 54 193 60 0.90
2015 54 180 60 0.90
2014 56 197 60 0.93

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 2 November 2022

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 8.5 6.1 1.0 1.4 28.2%
2023/24 9.3 7.3 0.0 1.9 20.4%
2022/23 10.3 9.3 1.0 0.0 9.7%
2021/22 8.8 8.1 0.5 0.2 8.0%
2020/21 8.9 8.0 0.0 0.9 10.1%
2019/20 9.3 9.2 0.0 0.1 1.1%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Highbury Infant School and Nursery.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.