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All Saints Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Datchworth

Primary · SG3 6RE

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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: OutstandingPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 26 June 2024

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At a glance

120 pupils · 62% of 195 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Voluntary aided school
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Free school meals
10.8% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
9.8% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
21.3% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
1.6% of pupils (2024/2025)
Website
www.datchworth.herts.sch.uk/
URN
117430

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 14 families named it first for 15 Reception places, 0.93 first choices per place. We hold 12 Reception admissions rounds for it, 2015 to 2026; none was decided by a published distance. Ofsted last graded it Good on 26 June 2024, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 3.8% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.93 first-choice applications per place

15 places offered · 14 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. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.

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

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
67%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
33%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
109
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
109
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 school67%
Median of its 12 closest peers62%
Hertfordshire average63.8%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of 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
Bredhurst Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGillingham · 48 miles awayGood90%
Stowting Church of England Primary SchoolAshford · 71 miles awayGood100%
St Ignatius Catholic Primary SchoolWakefield · 138 miles awayNo current grade79%
Thakeham Primary SchoolPulborough · 66 miles awayGood63%
Witnesham Primary SchoolIpswich · 61 miles awayGood55%
Hunsdon Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolWare · 10 miles awayOutstanding (2018)73%
Lady Elizabeth Hastings' CofE VA Primary School, Thorp ArchWetherby · 150 miles awayGood33%
Harting CofE Primary SchoolSouth Harting · 69 miles awayGood50%
St Christopher's Church of England SchoolLechlade · 64 miles awayGood36%
Kingsland CofE SchoolLeominster · 116 miles awayGood76%
Downham Feoffees Primary AcademyEly · 43 miles awayExpected standard61%
West Bretton Junior and Infant SchoolWakefield · 135 miles awayExpected standard50%

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

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 91% (Hertfordshire 58%, England 60%) · Any other Mixed background 2% (Hertfordshire 4%, England 3%) · Any other White background 2% (Hertfordshire 11%, England 7%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Hertfordshire 3%, England 2%) · Any other Asian background 1% (Hertfordshire 3%, England 2%) · Black African 1% (Hertfordshire 4%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Hertfordshire 1%, England 1%)

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)
3.8%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
4.5%
England 17.5%

Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)

0.00 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
17
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

83% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 16% 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)

50% of teachers took sickness absence, 4.2 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 £49,469; 18.2% 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£7,668
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2025-26)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 79% (76%) · premises 5% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 8% (8%) · supplies and services 8% (9%) · educational supplies 4% (4%) · bought-in professional services 2% (3%) · catering 5% (5%)

Reserves (2025-26)

Revenue reserve £132,089; in-year balance +£21,137

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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)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher40.1%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications13.1%18.1%
In managerial or professional work48.6%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways11.2%18.1%
Residents in very good health49.4%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier77.8%62.3%
Social housing13.5%17.1%
Privately rented8.7%20.5%
Detached houses50.6%22.9%
Flats5.8%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms41.6%21.1%
Households with no car or van5.5%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01023467 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£635,00035 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£527,500–£737,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (18)£737,500
Semi-detached (8)£577,500
Terraced (6)£537,500

Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

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
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
1a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

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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