Henham and Ugley Primary and Nursery School

Community school·Primary school Bishop's Stortford, Essex·CM22 6BP
Composite score
45.5
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#8,952
National rank
#961
In East of England
#254
In Essex
Top 61%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
70%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
83%
36 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.20
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
82
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.23
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8620221.0020230.9320240.9720251.202026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Henham and Ugley Primary and Nursery School yet. Essex does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
186
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,483
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Henham and Ugley Primary and Nursery School at a glance

Located in Bishop's Stortford, Essex, Henham and Ugley Primary and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 186 pupils aged 3 to 11. 70% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 18.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Henham and Ugley Primary and Nursery School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 36 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.9%. There are about 23.1 pupils per teacher. Henham and Ugley Primary and Nursery School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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