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Kingsway Infants' School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Community school
North Approach, Watford WD25 0ES · kingsway.herts.sch.uk · 01923 675005
On the mapSearch near WD25 0ES
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jan 2023
- 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
- 171
- 95% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Free school meals
- 18.1%
- First language not English
- 32.2%
- 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, 47 families put the school first and 53 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 | 53 | 47 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 50 | 44 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 54 | 46 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 54 | 48 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 54 | 43 | 0.8 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 20 January 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Kingsway Infants' School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 19 Jan 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2017
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jun 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Sept 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
98% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (41 replies, to 1 January 2024).
- Recommend
- 98%
- Replies
- 41
- 24% · 1 Jan 2024
based on the 66% who raised concerns
based on the 17% who had a child bullied