Central Primary School
Ofsted: Expected
Score
D49
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Watford, WD17 2LX
- Distance
- 0.4km away
Watford St John's Church of England Primary School
32 Clarendon Road, Watford, WD17 1JJ
Local ranking313th of 391 primary schools in Hertfordshire
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Primary
Phase
420
Capacity
4-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 25 February 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
- Early years
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 67.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 13.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 80.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 78.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 72.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 77.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 106.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 106.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 106.0
- Cohort Size
- 60
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 410
- Boys
- 202 (49%)
- Girls
- 208 (51%)
- Capacity
- 420 (98% full)
- SEND
- 12.4%
- FSM Eligible
- 12.2%
- EAL
- 48.8%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.7%
- SEN Support
- 9.8%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 25.1:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 16.4
- Budget per Pupil
- £6,424/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 4.1% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 9.5% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Religious Character
- Church of England/Christian
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White Other: 27.3%
- White British: 23.5%
- Asian Indian: 12.8%
- Black African: 12.5%
- Mixed Other: 5.3%
- Asian Other: 4.0%
- Asian Chinese: 3.0%
- Other: 3.0%
27.3%
White Other
23.5%
White British
12.8%
Asian Indian
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
32 Clarendon Road
Watford, East of England
Administrative
- URN
- 142221
- UKPRN
- 10056988
- Establishment No.
- 2051
- Trust
- POPPY ACADEMY TRUST
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