Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School

Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School is performing well overall, receiving a 'Good' rating across all inspection categories. The school prioritizes the well-being of its pupils, fostering a nurturing environment that promotes confidence, independence, and personal achievement. Leaders have made significant strides in enhancing the quality of education, ensuring that curricula are thoughtfully planned and sequenced, particularly in core subjects like reading, mathematics, and science. Parents express high satisfaction with the school's strong leadership and the effective communication between staff and families. However, there are areas where improvement is needed, particularly in ensuring all subjects offer clearly defined knowledge and skills tailored for all pupils, including those who are disadvantaged. While the school's performance is commendable, the inspection highlighted the need for further development in the mapping of knowledge regarding certain foundation subjects such as computing and art.

Strengths

• Strong leadership by headteacher and deputy headteacher.
• Nurturing environment that emphasizes pupils' well-being.
• Pupils develop confidence and independence in their learning.
• Effective support for pupils falling behind in reading.
• Positive relationships fostered between staff and families.
• High priority given to reading, aiding success in other subjects.
• Well-planned early years provision promoting early skills.
• Effective safeguarding arrangements in place.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum plans for subjects like computing and art are not clearly defined.
• Teaching in subjects other than reading and mathematics needs adapting to better meet the needs of disadvantaged pupils.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.7% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.5% of pupils at Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School had 23.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 7.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 15.8% of pupils at Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School received £6,518 and spent £6,534 for each of its 411 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £259,000 (£631 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School last inspected by Ofsted?

Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School have?

Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School has 418 pupils on roll.

What age range does Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School cover?

Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 47% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School?

Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School is at Hazelwood Lane, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, WD5 0LG.