Colney Heath Primary School
Primary · St Albans · AL4 0NP
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 22 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 152410
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 (2021 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 2993.01 m (≈1.86 mi)
measured in a straight line.
Furthest child admitted, by admission rule (2026 entry)
- Nearest School
- 1208.06 m (≈0.75 mi)
- Not Nearest School
- 3493.7 m (≈2.17 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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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
Compare admissions across the area: St Albans school admissions · Hertfordshire school admissions
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 5/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 6/10around the middle for England
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 30.7% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 15% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 36.5% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 14.9% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 51.7% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 70.9% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 19.7% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 9.1% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 20.2% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 16% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 26.2% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 9.3% | 23.5% |
Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01035581 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,272 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £532,50034 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
- Typical range
- £434,000–£639,500the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Reception cutoff distance (2.99 km, 2021 entry): 696 sales, median £421,500. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. 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 5.8
- All reported collisions
- 13an urban school averages 30.6
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 3an urban school averages 6.1
Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.