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St Mary's Infants' School

PrimaryAges 4–7Voluntary controlledChurch of England

Baldock, SG7 6HY · Hertfordshire local authority

Baldock’s School Grade B− better than 47% of towns in England

Getting in
16/16
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
82 pupils
46% of its 180 places
Free school meals
23%
23 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Mary's Infants' School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 82 pupils for 180 places
  • Ofsted: Good, June 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (16 of 16)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SG7 6) sold for a median £355,000; Baldock’s is £355,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Mary's Infants' School?

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

16
families put it first for September 2026
28
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
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. Hertfordshire council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Hertfordshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Baldock, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.12 per place
84% got their first choice
0.80 per place
100% got their first choice
St Mary's Infants'
0.57 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

106 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
23.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
8.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
5.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
25.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

No letter for St Mary's 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.

Graded inspection: Good, June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Mary's Infants' School

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

Home prices in SG7 6, the school’s postcode sector

Baldock property prices →
£355,000
median sale, 318 sales in 36 months · Baldock £355,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025SG7 6Baldock
SG7 6Baldock

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£535K
Semi-detached
£430K
Terraced
£345K
Flat
£200K
SG7 6Baldock

Homes in SG7 6 sell for about the same as Baldock’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

8 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNDA−DA−BB−DSt Mary's Infants' School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Baldock, SG7 6HY

St Mary's Infants' School: common questions

How hard is it to get into St Mary's Infants' School?

For September 2026, 16 families put St Mary's Infants' School first and all of them were offered a place; 28 places were offered in all.

What is St Mary's Infants' School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2023).

How much do houses cost near St Mary's Infants' School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SG7 6, sold for a median £355,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (318 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; Baldock’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.