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Anstey First School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–9 · Community school
Anstey, Buntingford SG9 0BY · anstey.herts.sch.uk · 01763 848346
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Apr 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hertfordshire Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 39
- 56% of 70 places
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 23.3%
- First language not English
- 5.1%
- 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, 2 families put the school first and 2 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 9 | 8 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 7 | 6 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 10 | 12 | 1.2▲ | 83% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Anstey First School on 14 April 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Needs attention
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 14 Apr 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Needs attention |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Needs attention |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Jan 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Jan 2022Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jan 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Sept 2010Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
95% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (22 replies, to 2 January 2023).
- Recommend
- 95%
- Replies
- 22
- 43% · 2 Jan 2023
based on the 73% who raised concerns
based on the 14% who had a child bullied