Graded inspection · Jan 2025 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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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 entry108 applications · 40 places offered · 38 named it first
- 2026 2.7; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2025 2.8; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2024 2.4; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2023 2.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2022 2.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2021 2.4; Hertfordshire median median 2.8
- 2020 2.4; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2019 2.2; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2018 2.1; Hertfordshire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 2.6; Hertfordshire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2016 2.4; Hertfordshire median median 2.9; as the previous school
- 2015 2.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2014 2.2; Hertfordshire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Hertfordshire median
Dashed bars: as Wheatfields Infants' and Nursery School (URN 117268), 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 | 40 | 108 | 2.7 | 38 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2025 | 59 | 165 | 2.8 | 52 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2024 | 60 | 144 | 2.4 | 56 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2023 | 90 | 208 | 2.3 | 72 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2022 | 88 | 204 | 2.3 | 70 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2021 | 89 | 211 | 2.4 | 82 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2020 * | 90 | 219 | 2.4 | 81 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2019 * | 89 | 198 | 2.2 | 70 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2018 * | 89 | 190 | 2.1 | 73 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2017 * | 90 | 230 | 2.6 | 105 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2016 * | 89 | 216 | 2.4 | 71 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2015 * | 90 | 211 | 2.3 | 72 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2014 * | 87 | 189 | 2.2 | 72 | 0.83 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Wheatfields Infants' and Nursery SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.7applications per place
- 0.0 km · HertfordshireRemains Good202387%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20254.0applications per place 87%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20246.0applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · HertfordshireGood202378%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · Hertfordshire20262.6applications per place
- 1.5 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20253.5applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- 1.7 km · HertfordshireGood20243.0applications per place 74%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20242.6applications per place 69%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
- 146893 · 919/2311
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 243 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2020
- Replaced
- Wheatfields Infants' and Nursery School (URN 117268)
- Address
- Downes Road, St. Albans, AL4 9NT
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · St Albans
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources