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Martins Wood Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–11 · Sponsored academy
Mildmay Road, Stevenage SG1 5RT · martinswood.herts.sch.uk · 01438 222602
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Dec 2025 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 65%
- 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
- 532
- 68% of 780 places
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 17.7%
- First language not English
- 19.5%
- 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, 44 families put the school first and 51 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 | 51 | 44 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 53 | 49 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 56 | 49 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 53 | 49 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 89 | 83 | 0.9 | 100% |
Last distance offered
| Reception | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | All | |
| September 2025 | All | |
| September 2024 | All | |
| September 2022 | 1.94 mi3.13 km | |
Every applicant was offered a place (52 allocations for 60 places).
Every applicant was offered a place (54 allocations for 90 places).
Every applicant was offered a place (56 allocations for 90 places).
Results
In 2024/25, 65% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% 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 | |||
| ▲65% | 62% | ||
| ●7% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●106 | 106 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 117285)
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Martins Wood Primary School on 2 December 2025 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 2 Dec 2025
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Nov 2021
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 117285), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
- Jul 2022Monitoring visitEffective action
Nov 2021Inadequate
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Good Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Good Safeguarding Not effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 117285)
Before September 2019
Nov 2017Good
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 117285)
Oct 2015Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 117285)
What parents said
69% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (39 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 69%
- Positive
- 67%
- Replies
- 39
- 7% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 90% who raised concerns
based on 8 parents (21%) whose child was bullied
based on 6 parents (15%) with SEND