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Round Diamond Primary School

Primary Ages 3-11 436 pupils Stevenage
Ofsted: Outstanding
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Round Diamond Primary School is an academy converter in Stevenage for pupils aged 3 to 11. It has 436 pupils on roll. The latest Ofsted rating for Round Diamond Primary School is Outstanding, from an inspection in October 2020 of its predecessor, Round Diamond Primary School. In 2025, 79% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Ofsted inspection: April 2025. KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Academy converter
Age Range 3-11
Religion Does not apply
Address Whitehorse Lane
Great Ashby Way
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG1 6NH
Phone 01438219410
Reference Number 149206

General Makeup

Number of pupils 436
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 53.9%
Girls: 46.1%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 5.3%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 13.3%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 29.1
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 29.8
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 29

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 32 28 60
2 33 26 59
3 34 24 58
4 27 28 55
5 28 32 60
6 30 29 59

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 59.9%
White, Other 8.7%
Indian 8.7%
African 6.2%
Pakistani 2.8%
Unclassified 2.3%
White & Black (Caribbean) 1.4%
Mixed, Other 1.4%
Caribbean 0.9%
White & Asian 0.5%
White & Black (African) 0.2%
Asian, Other 0.2%

This school has not been graded since it changed URN, usually on converting to an academy. The rating shown is from its predecessor, Round Diamond Primary School, inspected in October 2020.

Overall Ofsted Rating Outstanding
Last Report Date 04 Mar 2025 – no overall grade published for this inspection
Date Report
04 Mar 2025 School inspection
06 Jan 2023 Academy conversion letter

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 79%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 19%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 107
Maths 106

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Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

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Progress Scores

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Reception admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 47 2
Third Preference 35 1
From another Local Authority 0 0

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Round Diamond Primary School had 409 pupils for 420 places. 11 places (2.6%) were unfilled.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “Stevenage North East” planning area

Hertfordshire counted 411 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 355 in 2029–30, down 14%.

202320242025
Places 420420420
Pupils 417417409
Unfilled 0.7%0.7%2.6%

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 Round Diamond Primary School attended 95.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.8% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

202320242025
Authorised absence 3.5%2.8%3.0%
Unauthorised absence 1.6%1.4%1.2%
Severely absent pupils 0.3%0.3%0.5%

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, 1.5% of pupils at Round Diamond Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

2022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 3.23.24.44.2
Permanent exclusions 1000

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 Round Diamond Primary School had 20.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.7% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

202420252026
Pupils per adult 11.011.913.8
Teachers who left state teaching 4.1%8.7%–
Teachers who took any sick leave 40.0%34.8%–
Sick days per teacher 1.54.9–

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, 8.0% of pupils at Round Diamond Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.4% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Social, emotional and mental health 12 2
Speech, language and communication needs 7 7
Autistic spectrum disorder 4 6
Other difficulty or disability 6 3
No specialist assessment of need 3 0
Physical disability 1 1
Specific learning difficulty 1 0
Vision impairment 1 0

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 2024–25 Round Diamond Primary School received £6,261 and spent £6,304 for each of its 434 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £983,000 (£2,264 per pupil).

Across all 16 schools of Ivy Learning Trust, income was £7,250 and spending £7,265 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

20242025
Revenue reserve £49,000£983,000
per pupil £112£2,264
In-year balance -£85,000-£18,000
per pupil -£195-£43

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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0.36 miles
Giles Junior School
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0.69 miles
The Giles Infant and Nursery School
Durham Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 4JQ
0.69 miles
Martins Wood Primary School
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0.69 miles
Trotts Hill Primary and Nursery School
Wisden Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 5JD
0.98 miles
Moss Bury Primary School and Nursery
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1.2 miles
Almond Hill Junior School
Almonds Lane, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3RP
1.31 miles
Lodge Farm Primary School
Mobbsbury Way, Chells, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 0HP
1.37 miles
Larwood School
Larwood Drive, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 5BZ
1.44 miles
Camps Hill Primary School
Chells Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 0LT
1.54 miles
Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School
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1.69 miles
Letchmore Infants' and Nursery School
Letchmore Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3PS
1.7 miles
Bedwell Primary School
Bedwell Crescent, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 1NJ
1.73 miles
Graveley Primary School
Ashwell Common, Graveley, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 7LJ
1.79 miles
Fairlands Primary School
Pound Avenue, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3JA
1.79 miles
Weston Primary & Nursery School
Maiden Street, Weston, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 7AG
1.89 miles
Walkern Primary School
High Street, Walkern, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 7NS
2.1 miles
Broom Barns Primary School
Homestead Moat, Bedwell, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 1UE
2.2 miles
St Nicholas CofE (VA) Primary School and Nursery
Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 0PZ
2.22 miles
Ashtree Primary Academy
Chertsey Rise, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 9JQ
2.22 miles
Name Distance
The Nobel School
Mobbsbury Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 0HS
1.27 miles
Barclay Academy
Walkern Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3RB
1.6 miles
The Thomas Alleyne Academy
High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3BE
1.78 miles
Marriotts School
Brittain Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 8UT
1.8 miles
Lonsdale School
Brittain Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 8UT
1.8 miles
The Saint John Henry Newman Catholic School
Hitchin Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 4AE
1.86 miles
North Hertfordshire College
Monkswood Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 1LA
2.53 miles
Barnwell School
Barnwell, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 9SW
2.74 miles
Greenside School
Shephall Green, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 9XS
2.78 miles
The Valley School
Broadhall Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 9BN
2.8 miles
St Christopher School
Barrington Road, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 3JZ
3.51 miles
Kingshott School
Stevenage Road, Hitchin, SG4 7JX
3.68 miles
St Francis College
Broadway, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 3PJ
3.92 miles
Brandles School
Weston Way, Baldock, Hertfordshire, SG7 6EY
3.94 miles
The Highfield School
Highfield, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 3QA
4 miles
The Knights Templar School
Park Street, Baldock, Hertfordshire, SG7 6DZ
4.09 miles
Hitchin Girls' School
Highbury Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 9RS
4.3 miles
Fearnhill School
Icknield Way West, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 4BA
4.53 miles
East Hall School
The Calf House, East Hall Farm, St Pauls Walden, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 8DL
4.73 miles
Hitchin Boys' School
Grammar School Walk, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1JB
4.74 miles

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Round Diamond Primary School is part of Ivy Learning Trust, which runs 16 schools. The nearest others:

What is Round Diamond Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Round Diamond Primary School is Outstanding, from an inspection in October 2020 of its predecessor, Round Diamond Primary School.

When was Round Diamond Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Round Diamond Primary School was last inspected in April 2025.

How many pupils does Round Diamond Primary School have?

Round Diamond Primary School has 436 pupils on roll.

What age range does Round Diamond Primary School cover?

Round Diamond Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Round Diamond Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 79% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Round Diamond Primary School?

Round Diamond Primary School is at Whitehorse Lane, Great Ashby Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 6NH.

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