Gade Valley Primary School

Gade Valley Primary School remains a good school, fostering a positive environment where pupils enjoy learning and feel supported by their teachers. The school has displayed resilience by adapting its curriculum during the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring that essential knowledge is retained, particularly in core subjects like mathematics and reading. Pupils demonstrate a strong understanding of school learning behaviours and show enthusiasm for various extracurricular activities, contributing to their overall readiness for future educational stages. While there are clear strengths in curriculum delivery and pupil engagement, the inspection highlighted areas for improvement, particularly in defining the important knowledge for foundation subjects and ensuring thorough understanding among teachers regarding pupils' gaps in knowledge, especially for those with special educational needs. The school community is supportive, and parental engagement is encouraged, yet further refinements are needed to enhance learning outcomes consistently across all subject areas.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy learning and feel supported by staff.
• School has a well-adapted curriculum post-COVID-19.
• Strong emphasis on reading and phonics development.
• Positive behaviour and respect are evident among pupils.
• Enrichment opportunities enhance pupil engagement.

Areas for Improvement

• Some foundation subjects lack clearly defined important knowledge.
• Inconsistent identification of gaps in knowledge, especially for SEND 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 Gade Valley Primary School attended 95.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.6% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Gade Valley Primary 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 Gade Valley Primary School had 22.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 24.6% 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, 9.3% of pupils at Gade Valley Primary 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 Gade Valley Primary School received £6,607 and spent £6,528 for each of its 233 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £268,000 (£1,154 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 Gade Valley Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Gade Valley Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2022.

When was Gade Valley Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Gade Valley Primary School was last inspected in September 2022.

How many pupils does Gade Valley Primary School have?

Gade Valley Primary School has 236 pupils on roll.

What age range does Gade Valley Primary School cover?

Gade Valley Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Gade Valley Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Gade Valley Primary School?

Gade Valley Primary School is at Gadebridge Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 3DT.