Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School

Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School displays a good overall performance, maintaining a positive environment where pupils feel safe and valued. The school offers a well-structured curriculum with a strong emphasis on reading, allowing pupils to develop confidence and enthusiasm for their learning. Support for special educational needs is effectively tailored, ensuring that all pupils, including those with SEND, receive the appropriate help and opportunities to thrive in a broad and balanced curriculum. The school has demonstrated clear leadership, with governors actively involved in supporting and challenging the school's development.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy a calm, caring, and compassionate learning environment.
• Well-structured curriculum with a strong focus on reading.
• Teachers effectively support pupils' individual learning needs.
• High expectations for pupil behavior and attitudes towards learning.
• Strong focus on pupils' personal development and well-being.

Areas for Improvement

• In a few subjects, the important knowledge has not been clearly identified, impacting progression.

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 Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School attended 94.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.0% 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, 0.4% of pupils at Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School had 21.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.0% 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, 11.5% of pupils at Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.1% 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 Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School received £7,154 and spent £7,405 for each of its 234 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £154,000 (£658 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 Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School is Good, from an inspection in January 2023.

When was Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School last inspected by Ofsted?

Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School was last inspected in January 2023.

How many pupils does Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School have?

Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School has 235 pupils on roll.

What age range does Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School cover?

Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 50% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School?

Goffs Oak Primary & Nursery School is at Millcrest Road, Goffs Oak, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, EN7 5NS.