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Bromet Primary School

Primary · Watford · WD19 4SG

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Expected standard

Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)

The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.

Safeguarding: MetCurriculum & teaching: Expected standardAchievement: Expected standardAttendance & behaviour: Strong standardPersonal development: Strong standardInclusion: Strong standardLeadership & governance: Expected standardEarly years: Strong standardPost-16: Not applicable

Inspected 21 April 2026 · report published 9 June 2026

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At a glance

270 pupils · 96% of 280 capacity (January 2026 census)

School type
Academy converter
Age range
5–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
8.9% of pupils (January 2026)
English as additional language
33.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
SEN support
10.6% of pupils (2024/2025)
EHC plan
1.1% of pupils (2024/2025)
Website
http://www.bromet.herts.sch.uk/
URN
144908

In figures

For September 2026 entry, 27 families named it first for 40 Reception places, 0.68 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 1367.82 m (≈0.85 mi); distance decided places in 9 of the 12 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2015 to 2026. At its report-card inspection on 21 April 2026, under the system Ofsted introduced in November 2025, the Achievement area was judged Expected standard. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 3.9% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.68 first-choice applications per place

40 places offered · 27 first-choice applications · usually has places

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.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1367.82 m (≈0.85 mi)

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

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

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

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
85%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
20%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
110
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 school85%
Median of its 12 closest peers75.5%
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
Eastbury Farm Primary SchoolNorthwood · 2 miles awayGood70%
St Teresa's Catholic AcademyWokingham · 25 miles awayGood70%
Cannon Park Primary SchoolCoventry · 71 miles awayGood86%
Little Aston Primary AcademySutton Coldfield · 91 miles awayStrong standard82%
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolBristol · 97 miles awayOutstanding41%
Woodside Junior SchoolAmersham · 9 miles awayGood77%
St Marie's School, A Catholic Voluntary AcademySheffield · 129 miles awayGood76%
St Richard Reynolds Catholic Primary SchoolLondon · 14 miles awayOutstanding90%
Chigwell Primary AcademyChigwell · 20 miles awayGood75%
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolBishop's Stortford · 28 miles awayGood68%
Newnham Croft Primary SchoolCambridge · 44 miles awayGood81%
Eaton Primary SchoolNorwich · 97 miles awayGood72%

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

Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)

White British 43% (Hertfordshire 58%, England 60%) · Asian Indian 13% (Hertfordshire 4%, England 4%) · Any other White background 9% (Hertfordshire 11%, England 7%) · Any other Mixed background 8% (Hertfordshire 4%, England 3%) · Any other Asian background 6% (Hertfordshire 3%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 5% (Hertfordshire 2%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 4% (Hertfordshire 3%, England 2%) · Not recorded 3% (Hertfordshire 1%, England 1%) · Any other ethnic group 3% (Hertfordshire 2%, England 3%) · Black African 2% (Hertfordshire 4%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Hertfordshire 2%, England 2%) · Asian Chinese 1% (Hertfordshire 1%, England 1%) · White Gypsy/Roma 1% (Hertfordshire 0%, England 0%)

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)
3.9%
England 6.6%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
6.2%
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
24.1
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

59% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 25% moved to another state school · 16% left the state-funded sector

Vacancies (November 2025)

0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary

Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)

26.7% of teachers took sickness absence, 17.3 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 £50,592; 30.8% 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 (2024-25)

This school£5,599
Typical primary school£7,202

Where the money went (2024-25)

Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 80% (77%) · premises 5% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 5% (8%) · supplies and services 10% (9%) · educational supplies 4% (4%) · bought-in professional services 3% (2%) · catering 2% (5%)

Reserves (2024-25)

Revenue reserve £0; in-year balance +£119,000

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Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: academy finance return, 2024-25, 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)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher53.6%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications8.5%18.1%
In managerial or professional work50.5%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways8%18.1%
Residents in very good health55.4%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier79.6%62.3%
Social housing0.9%17.1%
Privately rented19.5%20.5%
Detached houses40.6%22.9%
Flats22.4%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms54.9%21.1%
Households with no car or van8.7%23.5%

These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01023885 · how to read area figures

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£450,000375 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
Typical range
£340,000–£677,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (64)£813,500
Semi-detached (75)£675,000
Terraced (127)£447,000
Flat (109)£300,000

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 (0.56 km, 2015 entry): 139 sales, median £480,000. 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
3an urban school averages 5.7
All reported collisions
16an urban school averages 30.5
Of those, serious or fatal
2an 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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