Willow Tree Primary School
Primary · Watford · WD18 6LL
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.
Inspected 19 April 2023
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185 pupils · 68% of 274 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 29.2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 151528
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.65 first-choice applications per place20 places offered · 13 first-choice applications · usually has places
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 329.07 m (≈0.20 mi)
measured in a straight line.
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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.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.