Graded inspection · Feb 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Hertfordshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry255 applications · 60 places offered · 76 named it first
- 2026 4.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2025 4.5; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2024 4.5; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2023 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2022 4.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2021 4.7; Hertfordshire median median 2.8
- 2020 4.9; Hertfordshire median median 2.8
- 2019 5.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.8
- 2018 5.0; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2017 5.0; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2016 5.7; Hertfordshire median median 2.9
- 2015 6.4; Hertfordshire median median 2.8
- 2014 5.9; Hertfordshire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Hertfordshire median
Dashed bars: as Crabtree Infants' School (URN 117312), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 60 | 255 | 4.3 | 76 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2025 | 59 | 264 | 4.5 | 84 | 1.42 |
| Sep 2024 | 59 | 265 | 4.5 | 85 | 1.44 |
| Sep 2023 | 60 | 244 | 4.1 | 62 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2022 | 59 | 256 | 4.3 | 75 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2021 | 60 | 283 | 4.7 | 77 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2020 | 58 | 285 | 4.9 | 82 | 1.41 |
| Sep 2019 | 60 | 319 | 5.3 | 105 | 1.75 |
| Sep 2018 | 60 | 301 | 5.0 | 89 | 1.48 |
| Sep 2017 | 60 | 297 | 5.0 | 81 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2016 | 60 | 343 | 5.7 | 76 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2015 | 59 | 375 | 6.4 | 84 | 1.42 |
| Sep 2014 * | 60 | 356 | 5.9 | 75 | 1.25 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Crabtree Infants' SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20244.3applications per place
- 0.1 km · HertfordshireOutstanding202386%met the SATs standard
- 0.4 km · HertfordshireRemains Outstanding20233.8applications per place 80%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20232.1applications per place
- 0.8 km · HertfordshireRemains Good202282%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · HertfordshireImproved significantly20253.5applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20232.4applications per place
- 1.0 km · HertfordshireRemains Good · improving20244.7applications per place 91%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20223.4applications per place 91%met the SATs standard
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 140707 · 919/2390
- Trust
- Ivy Learning Trust
- Capacity
- 180 pupils · 178 on roll
- Free school meals
- 1.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2014
- Replaced
- Crabtree Infants' School (URN 117312)
- Address
- Crabtree Lane, Harpenden, AL5 5PU
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · St Albans
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources