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The Hermitage Infant School

PrimaryAges 2–7Academy

Woking, GU21 8WT · Surrey local authority

Woking’s School Grade A− better than 80% of towns in England

Getting in
48/48
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
234 pupils
87% of its 270 places
Free school meals
16%
16 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about The Hermitage Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Inspected, March 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (48 of 48)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (GU21 8) sold for a median £450,000; Woking’s is £425,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at The Hermitage Infant School?

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

48
families put it first for September 2026
54
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
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (7). 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. The Swan Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Surrey council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Woking, September 2026

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

1.50 per place
64% got their first choice
1.50 per place
67% got their first choice
1.38 per place
72% got their first choice
1.10 per place
91% got their first choice
1.00 per place
96% got their first choice
1.00 per place
93% got their first choice
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice
The Hermitage Infant
0.89 per place
100% got their first choice
0.88 per place
100% got their first choice
0.87 per place
98% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

250 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
12%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
14%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
16.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 52%Boys 48%
Its letter

No letter for The Hermitage Infant 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 (no overall grade since September 2024), March 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near The Hermitage Infant School

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

Home prices in GU21 8, the school’s postcode sector

Woking property prices →
£450,000
median sale, 133 sales in 36 months · Woking £425,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025GU21 8Woking
GU21 8Woking

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£620K
Semi-detached
£510K
Terraced
£385K
Flat
£228K
GU21 8Woking

Homes in GU21 8 sell for a little over Woking’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

11 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−B+C+C−B−B−CC+A+CThe Hermitage Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Woking, GU21 8WT

The Hermitage Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into The Hermitage Infant School?

For September 2026, 48 families put The Hermitage Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 54 places were offered in all.

What is The Hermitage Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (March 2025).

How much do houses cost near The Hermitage Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, GU21 8, sold for a median £450,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (133 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; Woking’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.