Thorn Grove Primary School
Primary · Bishop's Stortford · CM23 5LD
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Standards maintained”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 23 October 2024
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223 pupils · 93% of 240 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 20.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 24.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 9.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.5% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.thorngrove.herts.sch.uk/
- URN
- 117277
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.93 first-choice applications per place28 places offered · 26 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2026 entry) lived within 749.6 m (≈0.47 mi)
measured in a straight line.
Cutoff distance by entry year
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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
30 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
90% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 10% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 22 October 2024: Standards maintained
- 9 May 2019: Good
- 23 March 2017: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College
- Hockerill Anglo-European College
- Summercroft Primary School
- All Saints Church of England Primary School and Nursery, Bishop's Stortford
- White Trees Independent School
- Thorley Hill Primary School
- Birchwood High School
- St Michael's Church of England Primary School