Graded inspection · Feb 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 | 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 entry120 applications · 30 places offered · 46 named it first
- 2026 4.0; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2025 5.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2024 4.2; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2023 5.8; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2022 6.1; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2021 6.8; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2020 5.5; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2019 6.2; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2018 5.6; Hertfordshire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 6.1; Hertfordshire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2016 5.7; Hertfordshire median median 2.9; as the previous school
- 2015 5.7; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2014 5.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Hertfordshire median
Dashed bars: as Skyswood Primary & Nursery School (URN 117240), 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 | 30 | 120 | 4.0 | 46 | 1.53 |
| Sep 2025 | 30 | 159 | 5.3 | 61 | 2.03 |
| Sep 2024 | 30 | 126 | 4.2 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2023 | 30 | 173 | 5.8 | 56 | 1.87 |
| Sep 2022 | 30 | 182 | 6.1 | 63 | 2.10 |
| Sep 2021 * | 28 | 190 | 6.8 | 55 | 1.96 |
| Sep 2020 * | 30 | 166 | 5.5 | 50 | 1.67 |
| Sep 2019 * | 30 | 186 | 6.2 | 58 | 1.93 |
| Sep 2018 * | 28 | 156 | 5.6 | 51 | 1.82 |
| Sep 2017 * | 29 | 176 | 6.1 | 44 | 1.52 |
| Sep 2016 * | 30 | 172 | 5.7 | 50 | 1.67 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 172 | 5.7 | 62 | 2.07 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 160 | 5.3 | 46 | 1.53 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 93% · Writing 90% · Maths 93% → all three 87% 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 | 87% | 37% | 112 | 110 |
| 2023/24 | 90% | 26% | 109 | 108 |
| 2022/23 | 84% | 39% | 111 | 110 |
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
- Skyswood Primary & Nursery SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20254.0applications per place 87%met the SATs standard
- 0.2 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20246.0applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · HertfordshireRemains Good202387%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20252.7applications per place
- 1.2 km · HertfordshireGood20243.0applications per place 74%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20253.5applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20232.8applications per place
- 1.8 km · Hertfordshire20262.6applications per place
- 1.8 km · HertfordshireGood202378%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
- 148875 · 919/2258
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 230 on roll
- Free school meals
- 0.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 February 2022
- Replaced
- Skyswood Primary & Nursery School (URN 117240)
- Address
- Chandlers Road, St Albans, AL4 9RS
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · St Albans
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources