Long Marston VA Church of England Primary and Nursery School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Tring, Hertfordshire·HP23 4QS
Composite score
23.4
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#14,194
National rank
#1599
In East of England
#332
In Hertfordshire
Top 96%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
36%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
88%
16 first choices, 14 places
First choices per place
1.14
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
33
any preference, for 14 places
Applications from another council area
54%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.32
00.511.52
1 per place
1.0020220.6120231.2120241.4720251.142026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Long Marston VA Church of England Primary and Nursery School yet. Hertfordshire 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
140
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,292
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Long Marston VA Church of England Primary and Nursery School at a glance

Located in Tring, Hertfordshire, Long Marston VA Church of England Primary and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 140 pupils aged 3 to 11. 36% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 11.0 percentage points compared with the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to 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 105 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Long Marston VA Church of England Primary and Nursery School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 16 first choices for 14 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 21.0 pupils per teacher. Long Marston VA Church of England 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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