Highover Junior Mixed and Infant School
Cambridge Road, Hitchin, SG4 0JP
433 pupils · 96% of 450 capacity
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Free school meals
- 5.8%
Ofsted
No overall grade (2025) — Inspected 2024–2025 — no overall grade under the interim framework
This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.
Inspected 28 January 2025, published 9 March 2025. Read the full Ofsted report
England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.
Exam results
| Measure | 2024/25 |
|---|---|
| Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths | 68% |
| Reaching the higher standard | 15% |
“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.
Will my child get in?
Roughly one first choice per place — 0.95 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)
| Entry | Places | 1st preferences | Total preferences | Offers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 2026 entry | 60 | 57 | 145 | 60 |
| Sept 2025 entry | 56 | 50 | 112 | 54 |
| Sept 2024 entry | 60 | 58 | 123 | 60 |
| Sept 2023 entry | 59 | 62 | 145 | 59 |
| Sept 2022 entry | 59 | 62 | 146 | 59 |
| Sept 2021 entry | 53 | 47 | 119 | 53 |
| Sept 2020 entry | 60 | 64 | 157 | 60 |
| Sept 2019 entry | 60 | 52 | 132 | 60 |
First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.
Nearby alternatives
- Purwell Primary School 0.8 km · No overall grade (2024)
- St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Hitchin 1.2 km · Outstanding — confirmed 2024 · previous system
- William Ransom Primary School 1.3 km · No overall grade (2025)
- Mary Exton Primary School 1.3 km · Good (2022) · previous system
- St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School 1.5 km · Good (2023) · previous system
- Our Lady Catholic Primary School 1.7 km · Good (2022) · previous system
Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.
Data from DfE and Ofsted open data (OGL v3) — sources. School record updated 10 July 2026. Report incorrect data.