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Yewtree Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Community school
Fletcher Way, Hemel Hempstead HP2 5QR · yewtree.herts.sch.uk · 01442 424920
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Jun 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade · safeguarding standards not met
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 17%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Hertfordshire 64%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hertfordshire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 321
- 76% of 420 places
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 44.2%
- First language not English
- 43.9%
- 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, 22 families put the school first and 29 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 | 29 | 22 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 22 | 20 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 16 | 11 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 43 | 31 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 36 | 29 | 0.8 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 17% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 0% the higher standard. Across Hertfordshire it was 64%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼17% | 62% | ||
| ▼0% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼100 | 106 | ||
| ▼97 | 105 | ||
| ▼99 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Yewtree Primary School on 9 June 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade. Safeguarding standards were not met.
- Inclusion: Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement
- Achievement: Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement
- Personal development and well-being: Needs attention
- Early years: Needs attention
- Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement
- Inspected
- 9 Jun 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Not met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Needs attention |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Urgent improvement |
| Achievement | Urgent improvement |
| Attendance and behaviour | Urgent improvement |
| Personal development and well-being | Needs attention |
| Early years | Needs attention |
| Leadership and governance | Urgent improvement |
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Mar 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2022Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2018Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Sept 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Mar 2013Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
71% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (14 replies, to 2 January 2023).
- Recommend
- 71%
- Replies
- 14
- 4% · 2 Jan 2023
based on the 93% who raised concerns
based on the 50% who had a child bullied