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Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School

Primary · Abbots Langley · WD5 0LG

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Good

Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 27 November 2019

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At a glance

418 pupils · 93% of 450 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Community school
Age range
3–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
20.8% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
9.4% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
17.3% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
2.1% of pupils (2024/2025)
Nursery
Yes
Website
http://www.tannerswood.herts.sch.uk/
URN
117178

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 55 families named it first for 58 Reception places, 0.95 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2023 entry went to 1517.15 m (≈0.94 mi); distance decided places in 3 of the 12 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2015 to 2026. Ofsted last graded it Good on 27 November 2019, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 4.8% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.95 first-choice applications per place

58 places offered · 55 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured

Catchment area

Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2023 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1517.15 m (≈0.94 mi)

measured in a straight line.

Furthest child admitted, by admission rule (2026 entry)

Nearest School
1490.92 m (≈0.93 mi)
Not Nearest School
2566.88 m (≈1.59 mi)

Places were not all filled that year, so these distances show how far the furthest child admitted under each rule lived, not how close you needed to be.

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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

57 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
47%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
4%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
102
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
101
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school47%
Median of its 12 closest peers60%
Hertfordshire average63.8%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.

SchoolOfstedResult
Amesbury Archer Primary SchoolAmesbury · 69 miles awayGood56%
Elm Grove Primary SchoolBrighton · 61 miles awayGood39%
The Craylands SchoolSwanscombe · 36 miles awayGood (2016)76%
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolNewton Abbot · 159 miles awayGood61%
Chellaston Junior SchoolDerby · 92 miles awayGood56%
Jupiter Primary SchoolHemel Hempstead · 5 miles awayGood61%
Ackton Pastures Primary AcademyCastleford · 145 miles awayGood64%
Milby Primary SchoolNuneaton · 73 miles awayGood (2015)60%
Ludlow Primary SchoolLudlow · 108 miles awayGood60%
Burstow Primary SchoolHorley · 39 miles awayGood51%
Cann Hall Primary SchoolClacton-on-Sea · 67 miles awayGood76%
Linden Primary SchoolGloucester · 79 miles awayGood43%

It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 73% (Hertfordshire 58%, England 60%) · Any other White background 6% (Hertfordshire 11%, England 7%) · Asian Indian 4% (Hertfordshire 4%, England 4%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (Hertfordshire 4%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 3% (Hertfordshire 2%, England 2%) · Any other Asian background 2% (Hertfordshire 3%, England 2%) · Black African 2% (Hertfordshire 4%, England 5%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Hertfordshire 2%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (Hertfordshire 3%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Hertfordshire 1%, England 1%) · White Irish 1% (Hertfordshire 1%, England 0%) · Asian Pakistani 1% (Hertfordshire 2%, England 5%) · other groups together 2%

Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures

Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
4.8%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
14.1%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

0.47 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Hertfordshire: 2.92 suspensions and 0.02 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

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Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
23
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

92% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 2% left the state-funded sector

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained primaries: 0.18% vacant, 0.36% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

45.5% of teachers took sickness absence, 3.1 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days

Teacher pay (November 2025)

Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £48,296; 10% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%

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Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted

Spending per pupil (2025-26)

This school£6,534
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 80% (76%) · premises 4% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 8% (8%) · supplies and services 8% (9%) · educational supplies 5% (4%) · bought-in professional services 2% (3%) · catering 4% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve £258,864; in-year balance -£6,701

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: council-maintained school finance return, 2025-26, DfE · how spending is compared

Inspection history since 2015

Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
5/10around the middle for England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
5/10around the middle for England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher30.1%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications18%18.1%
In managerial or professional work32.2%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways18.7%18.1%
Residents in very good health50.2%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier58.8%62.3%
Social housing33.2%17.1%
Privately rented8%20.5%
Detached houses8.6%22.9%
Flats6.4%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms19.4%21.1%
Households with no car or van10.4%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01023829 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£492,500284 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£372,000–£675,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (62)£866,000
Semi-detached (95)£560,000
Terraced (84)£408,000
Flat (43)£250,000

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (1.52 km, 2023 entry): 577 sales, median £435,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
0an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
0an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
4an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
1an urban school averages 6.1

A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted

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