St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Hertford)
Performance (KS2 SATs)
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Getting a place
Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this
We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Hertford) 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
- 209
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
Pupil background
Special educational needs
Attendance
Staffing & funding
“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means
Nearby primary schools
Location
Official sources
About St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Hertford)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Hertford) is a primary school in Hertfordshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 209 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. 46% 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 fallen by 17.0 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 104 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 14% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Hertford) is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 37 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.7%. There are about 19.4 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 8% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Hertford) 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.