Report card · inspected Dec 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
This schoolOther primary schools in Hertfordshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Expected standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard | ||||
| Achievement | Expected standard | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Expected standard | ||||
| Early years | Strong standard | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
Inspection history
- 9 December 2025Report card · 1 Strong standard, 6 Expected standard
- 28 September 2021Graded inspection: Inadequate · as Watchlytes Primary School, URN 117348
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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 entry46 applications · 19 places offered · 16 named it first
- 2026 2.4; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2025 2.1; Hertfordshire median median 2.6
- 2024 3.1; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2023 2.1; Hertfordshire median median 2.7
- 2022 2.4; Hertfordshire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2021 3.1; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2020 3.2; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2019 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2018 3.0; Hertfordshire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 3.5; Hertfordshire median median 2.6; as the previous school
- 2016 3.3; Hertfordshire median median 2.9; as the previous school
- 2015 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2014 3.6; Hertfordshire median median 2.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Hertfordshire median
Dashed bars: as Watchlytes Primary School (URN 117348), 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 | 19 | 46 | 2.4 | 16 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2025 | 21 | 45 | 2.1 | 16 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2024 | 17 | 53 | 3.1 | 13 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2023 | 14 | 29 | 2.1 | 11 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2022 * | 30 | 72 | 2.4 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2021 * | 30 | 92 | 3.1 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2020 * | 30 | 95 | 3.2 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 30 | 86 | 2.9 | 25 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2018 * | 30 | 91 | 3.0 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 106 | 3.5 | 43 | 1.43 |
| Sep 2016 * | 30 | 98 | 3.3 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 87 | 2.9 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 109 | 3.6 | 35 | 1.17 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 76% · Writing 76% · Maths 84% → all three 76% 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 | 76% | 4% | 103 | 104 |
| 2023/24 | 67% | 21% | 107 | 106 |
| 2022/23 |
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
- Watchlytes Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolSpecial measures 20252.4applications per place 76%met the SATs standard
- 0.6 km · HertfordshireGood20221.7applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · HertfordshireGood20233.9applications per place 80%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20252.4applications per place 80%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · HertfordshireGood20232.7applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20242.2applications per place
- 1.6 km · HertfordshireGood20231.9applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 1.7 km · Hertfordshire20262.0applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20254.4applications per place 75%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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 149333 · 919/2118
- Trust
- Ivy Learning Trust
- Capacity
- 240 pupils · 158 on roll
- Free school meals
- 33.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 December 2022
- Replaced
- Watchlytes Primary School (URN 117348)
- Address
- Watchlytes, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 2AZ
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · Welwyn Hatfield
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources