Maple Primary School
Community school in St Albans, AL1 3SW, taking ages 4 to 11, 214 on roll.
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In the latest published round, the furthest child offered a place lived 15.65 miles away.
Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close 15 January 2027; offers on 16 April 2027.
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The circle is 15.65 miles, the distance the school admitted from in the latest published year.
Maple Primary School: 15.65 miles Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School: 16.09 miles, published by Hertfordshire
How to read this
Most English schools do not have a catchment area. When Maple Primary School is oversubscribed, places go outward from the school until they run out, so the distance moves each year with how many families applied and where they lived.
Distances are measured from the postcode's centre, not a front door; a postcode covers a few houses. Siblings, looked-after children come before distance, so a school can fill before distance counts at all.
Real admission areas are not circular: the circle is the distance, not a boundary. The labels on the map are postcode districts whose centre falls inside both circles; each opens the district's guide.
The address on the closing date is the one the council uses. How admissions work.
Source: Hertfordshire, published admission distances
Where Maple Primary School and Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School are both in reach
Both distances are drawn on the map above. Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School admitted from 16.09 miles in the latest published year, published by Hertfordshire. Its own page has the rest of its figures.
The postcode districts whose centre falls inside both published distances, cheapest first by the median of real sales around each district's centre. The cheapest is LU1 at £268,000; the dearest shown, HP3, £365,000. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list.
| District | Area | From Maple Primary School | From Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School | Median sold price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LU1 | Luton | 9.1 mi | 8.5 mi | £268,000 139 sales |
| WD99 | Watford | 8.3 mi | 8.8 mi | £320,000 59 sales |
| LU2 | Luton | 9.8 mi | 9.2 mi | £327,500 176 sales |
| LU4 | Luton | 11.4 mi | 10.8 mi | £336,000 98 sales |
| AL10 | Welwyn Hatfield | 4.3 mi | 4.5 mi | £340,000 64 sales |
| LU3 | Luton | 11.6 mi | 10.9 mi | £340,000 137 sales |
| WD18 | Watford | 8.2 mi | 8.6 mi | £342,000 103 sales |
| SG2 | Stevenage | 12.1 mi | 11.8 mi | £346,000 133 sales |
| WD17 | Watford | 7.1 mi | 7.5 mi | £355,000 99 sales |
| LU6 | Central Bedfordshire | 12.2 mi | 11.6 mi | £355,000 151 sales |
| AL1 | St Albans | 0.6 mi | 1.2 mi | £365,000 155 sales |
| HP3 | Dacorum | 6.1 mi | 6.1 mi | £365,000 133 sales |
Sold prices from HM Land Registry, via each district's area guide. Distances measured from each district's centre to each school's point on the Department for Education register. Only the cheapest 12 are listed. 5 more districts fall inside both without enough recorded sales to rank: AL9, HA7, N20, SG4, EN7.
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Other schools nearby with a published distance
The closest schools to Maple Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.
| School | Phase | Admitted from | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alban City School Both in reach | Primary | 7.68 mi | 0.1 mi |
| Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery School Both in reach | Primary | 18.95 mi | 0.4 mi |
| Bernards Heath Junior School | Primary | No limit | 0.6 mi |
| Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School Both in reach | Primary | 16.09 mi | 0.6 mi |
| Fleetville Junior School Both in reach | Primary | 3.5 mi | 0.8 mi |
| Fleetville Infant and Nursery School Both in reach | Primary | 0.74 mi | 0.9 mi |
The distance as a picture
What kind of school this is
| Religious character | No religious character |
| Sixth form | Does not have a sixth form |
| How full | 214 pupils in 210 places (102% full, over capacity) |
| Local authority | Hertfordshire |
Department for Education register (GIAS).
How the school is doing
| Ofsted | Report card, January 2026: 6 areas strong or exceptional, 1 at the expected standard |
| Report card |
|
| Meeting the expected standard | 93.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25) |
| Year | Meeting the expected standard |
|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 93.0% |
| 2023/24 | 85.0% |
| 2022/23 | 84.0% |
Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.
Who goes to Maple Primary School
| Girls and boys | 50.5% girls, 49.5% boys |
| English as an additional language | 26.6% of pupils |
| Free school meals | 6.5% of pupils eligible |
DfE school census, most recent published year.
What it costs to live within reach of Maple Primary School
Cheapest district inside the 15.65 miles: AL10, median £340,000. Dearest: AL3, £1,240,000.
| District | Area | From the school | Median sold price |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL10 | Welwyn Hatfield | 4.3 mi | £340,000 64 sales |
| AL1 | St Albans | 0.6 mi | £365,000 155 sales |
| HP2 | Dacorum | 5.2 mi | £385,575 85 sales |
| WD5 | Three Rivers | 5.1 mi | £406,500 135 sales |
| WD25 | Watford | 5.3 mi | £425,000 99 sales |
| AL5 | St Albans | 4.2 mi | £462,500 81 sales |
| AL8 | Welwyn Hatfield | 6.1 mi | £489,000 60 sales |
| AL2 | St Albans | 2.6 mi | £550,000 74 sales |
| AL4 | St Albans | 2.0 mi | £600,000 121 sales |
| WD7 | Hertsmere | 4.8 mi | £1,000,000 75 sales |
| AL3 | St Albans | 2.6 mi | £1,240,000 5 sales |
How to read this
The postcode districts whose centre falls inside the 15.65 miles the school admitted from in the latest published year, cheapest first, by the median of real sales around each district's centre. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list. Districts without enough recorded sales to rank are not shown.
How this compares across England: what a tight gate costs, school by school.
Source: HM Land Registry sold prices, via each district's area guide
Getting to Maple Primary School by bus
Best-served stop: Alban City School, 0.2 mi away, with 7.1 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 05:28, last 23:33.
Every stop within 600 m
| Stop | From the school | Weekday daytime, an hour | Evening | Sunday | Routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chime Square | 0.1 mi | 6.2 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 321, 357, 304, S9, 305, S8 |
| Chime Square | 0.1 mi | 5.4 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 321, 304, S9, 305, S8, 84 |
| Alban City School | 0.1 mi | 4.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | S6, 361, 304, 34, S4, S7 |
These are scheduled departures, not buses observed running. Two stops on opposite sides of a road are two rows.
Source: operators' timetables on the Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport), week of 8 Sep 2026
The fee-paying alternative
Weighing Maple Primary School against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around AL1: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at AL1 3SW, by the school: council tax, energy, prices, rent, stamp duty →
Checking the house as well as the school
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Common questions
What is the catchment area for Maple Primary School?
Maple Primary School does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, an oversubscribed year offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer: the furthest child admitted in the latest published year lived 15.65 miles away, per Hertfordshire.
How close do I need to live to get a place at Maple Primary School?
Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 15.65 miles was enough in the latest published year, and at 102% full the school has little slack. The distance moves every year with the number of applications, so treat last year's figure as evidence, not a promise.
Does buying a house near Maple Primary School guarantee a place?
No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.
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