Academy sponsor led · Primary
Hitchin · SG5 1NS · Hertfordshire
Ages 7–11
Status: Open
0.3 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 117337
Samuel Lucas Junior Mixed and Infant School
Community school · Hitchin · SG5 2JQ
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 4–11
Pupils
416
Local authority
Hertfordshire
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, 416 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 5.5%.
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Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 117337
Location
- Address
- Gaping Lane
- Postcode
- SG5 2JQ
- Town
- Hitchin
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- District
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 416
- Boys / girls
- 217 / 199
- School capacity
- 420
- Capacity fill
- 416 / 420 (99%)
- Free school meals
- 5.5%
- FSM pupils
- 23
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Helen Brind
- Telephone
- 01462456737
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Outstanding
Inspection date
2023-10-03
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 70%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 22%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 109.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 108.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 106.0