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Tannery Drift School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Community school
Tannery Drift, Royston SG8 5DE · tannerydrift.herts.sch.uk · 01763 246549
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Mar 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hertfordshire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 320
- 93% of 345 places
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 8.3%
- First language not English
- 14.7%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Hertfordshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 52 families put the school first and 55 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
Demand for places
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 55 | 52 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 60 | 65 | 1.1▲ | 86% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 65 | 1.1▲ | 80% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 55 | 0.9 | 95% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 58 | 49 | 0.8 | 100% |
Last distance offered
| Reception | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | All | |
| September 2022 | All | |
| September 2025 | 0.50 mi0.81 km | |
| September 2024 | 0.47 mi0.76 km | |
Every applicant was offered a place (56 allocations for 60 places).
Every applicant was offered a place (58 allocations for 60 places).
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Tannery Drift School on 4 March 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 4 Mar 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Feb 2020
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Feb 2020Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Nov 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
99% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (95 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 99%
- Replies
- 95
- 29% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 66% who raised concerns
based on the 15% who had a child bullied
based on 13 parents (14%) with SEND