Graded inspection · Jan 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 |
Inspection history
- 24 January 2024Graded inspection: Outstanding
- 26 January 2022Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving)
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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 entry126 applications · 29 places offered · 55 named it first
- 2026 4.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2025 3.9; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2024 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2023 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2022 2.6; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2021 3.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.8
- 2020 3.2; Hertfordshire median median 2.8
- 2019 3.4; Hertfordshire median median 2.8
- 2018 3.2; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2017 3.0; Hertfordshire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2016 3.7; Hertfordshire median median 2.9; as the previous school
- 2015 3.0; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2014 2.5; Hertfordshire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Hertfordshire median
Dashed bars: as Warren Dell Primary School (URN 117169), 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 | 29 | 126 | 4.3 | 55 | 1.90 |
| Sep 2025 | 30 | 117 | 3.9 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2024 | 30 | 87 | 2.9 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2023 | 30 | 87 | 2.9 | 29 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2022 | 29 | 75 | 2.6 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2021 | 28 | 91 | 3.3 | 33 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2020 | 29 | 92 | 3.2 | 33 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2019 | 30 | 103 | 3.4 | 28 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2018 | 30 | 97 | 3.2 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 90 | 3.0 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2016 * | 30 | 112 | 3.7 | 47 | 1.57 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 89 | 3.0 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2014 * | 31 | 77 | 2.5 | 31 | 1.00 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 73% · Writing 79% · Maths 88% → all three 73% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Hertfordshire median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 73% | 24% | 104 | 106 |
| 2023/24 | 77% | 10% | 108 | 106 |
| 2022/23 | 83% | 10% | 108 | 105 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Warren Dell Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20244.3applications per place 73%met the SATs standard
- 0.4 km · Hertfordshire20261.7applications per place 75%met the SATs standard
- 0.4 km · HertfordshireRemains Outstanding20232.9applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Hertfordshire20262.3applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · HertfordshireGood20222.9applications per place 39%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · Hertfordshire20262.0applications per place 67%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · Hertfordshire20263.1applications per place 85%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20242.1applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 2.1 km · HarrowOutstanding20233.1applications per place 87%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 144905 · 919/2135
- Capacity
- 264 pupils · 264 on roll
- Free school meals
- 23.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2017
- Replaced
- Warren Dell Primary School (URN 117169)
- Address
- Gosforth Lane, South Oxhey, Watford, WD19 7UZ
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · Three Rivers
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources