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Peartree Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–11 · Academy
Peartree Lane, Welwyn Garden City AL7 3XW · peartreeprimary.org · 01707 881033
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Apr 2025
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 75%
- 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
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 184
- 68% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Free school meals
- 34.8%
- First language not English
- 27.2%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Ivy Learning Trust
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, 12 families put the school first and 13 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 | 13 | 12 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 26 | 13 | 0.5 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 24 | 15 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 24 | 18 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 25 | 15 | 0.6 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 75% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 17% 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 | |||
| ▲75% | 62% | ||
| ▲17% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●108 | 106 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 117172)
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 30 April 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Peartree Primary School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 29 Apr 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2016
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 117172), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Feb 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 117172)
Oct 2013Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 117172)
What parents said
77% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (62 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 77%
- Replies
- 62
- 33% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 82% who raised concerns
based on the 48% who had a child bullied
based on 22 parents (35%) with SEND