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Hyde Park Infants' School

PrimaryAges 5–7Academy

Plymouth, PL3 4RS · Plymouth local authority

Plymouth’s School Grade B+ better than 72% of towns in England

Getting in
34/34
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
194 pupils
72% of its 270 places
Free school meals
4%
4 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Hyde Park Infants' School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 194 pupils for 270 places
  • 4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (34 of 34)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (PL3 4) sold for a median £278,000; Plymouth’s is £222,500
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Hyde Park Infants' School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

34
families put it first for September 2026
38
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Learning Academies Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Plymouth council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Plymouth, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.60 per place
63% got their first choice
1.48 per place
67% got their first choice
1.37 per place
71% got their first choice
1.34 per place
72% got their first choice
1.31 per place
75% got their first choice
1.17 per place
86% got their first choice
1.17 per place
86% got their first choice
1.15 per place
87% got their first choice
1.15 per place
84% got their first choice
Hyde Park Infants'
0.89 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

214 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
13.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
0.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
26.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 47%Boys 53%
Its letter

No letter for Hyde Park Infants' School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting June 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsStrong standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Inadequate, November 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Hyde Park Infants' School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in PL3 4, the school’s postcode sector

Plymouth property prices →
£278,000
median sale, 464 sales in 36 months · Plymouth £222,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025PL3 4Plymouth
PL3 4Plymouth

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£381K
Semi-detached
£305K
Terraced
£290K
Flat
£135K
PL3 4Plymouth

Homes in PL3 4 sell for well over Plymouth’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

33 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCB−C−AA−DA+A+DB−AB−DC−DCCA−A−C+A−A−B+C+B−A−CB−C+DA+CA−Hyde Park Infants' School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Plymouth, PL3 4RS

Hyde Park Infants' School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Hyde Park Infants' School?

For September 2026, 34 families put Hyde Park Infants' School first and all of them were offered a place; 38 places were offered in all.

What is Hyde Park Infants' School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Hyde Park Infants' School?

Homes in its postcode sector, PL3 4, sold for a median £278,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (464 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Plymouth’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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