Windermere Primary School

Community school·Primary school St. Albans, Hertfordshire·AL1 5QP
Composite score
39.4
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#11,110
National rank
#1201
In East of England
#275
In Hertfordshire
Top 75%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
48%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
10 first choices, 10 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
26
any preference, for 10 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.40
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7420220.4820230.8620240.6020251.002026

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

Every child who put Windermere Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
158
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
35.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
25.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
7.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
18.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,571
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Windermere Primary School is a primary school serving St. Albans, Hertfordshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 158 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 48% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 3.0 percentage points year on 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 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Windermere Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 10 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.9%. There are about 15.6 pupils per teacher. Windermere Primary 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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