Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School

Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School continues to perform well, maintaining its status as a good school. Pupils enjoy a supportive environment where they feel safe, valued, and motivated to learn. The curriculum is comprehensive, with staff showing strong subject knowledge, particularly in reading, which is effectively prioritized. Despite some successes, there are areas for improvement regarding the depth of knowledge in certain foundation subjects and ensuring that all students are consistently challenged in their learning activities. The school has remained responsive to the needs of its pupils, actively fostering their engagement with school life and their sense of responsibility.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate positive attitudes and feel safe at school.
• Teachers adapt activities effectively to meet individual pupil needs.
• Reading is prioritized with systematic support from well-trained staff.
• Pupils achieve well in spelling, grammar and punctuation, and times tables.
• The school offers a variety of extracurricular activities to enhance pupil engagement.

Areas for Improvement

• Leaders need to ensure key knowledge is identified precisely in foundation subjects.
• Some pupils are not consistently set work that meets the high expectations of the curriculum.
• A minority of parents feel inadequately informed about school communications.

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 Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.2% 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 Hobbs Hill Wood Primary 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 Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School had 25.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 2.8% 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, 15.1% of pupils at Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.3% 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 Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School received £7,284 and spent £7,372 for each of its 441 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £550,000 (£1,249 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 Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2023.

When was Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School was last inspected in July 2023.

How many pupils does Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School have?

Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School has 450 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School cover?

Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School?

Hobbs Hill Wood Primary School is at Peascroft Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP3 8ER.