Templewood Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.55 miles
Nearest School · Published by Hertfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)
Templewood Primary School is a primary school in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 December 2023. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Templewood Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.55 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 0.40 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 0.62 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 0.55 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 0.59 mi |
| Reception 2021 | 0.38 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 0.62 mi |
| Reception 2019 | 0.35 mi |
| Reception 2018 | 0.39 mi |
| Reception 2017 | 0.31 mi |
| Reception 2016 | 0.38 mi |
| Reception 2015 | 0.44 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 60% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception in 2026, among children for whom it was the nearest school, the last place offered went to a child 0.55 miles from the school, further than in 2025.
- Reception 2026 saw 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (12%) were not offered a place.
- 6.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hertfordshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Hertfordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Pentley Park, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7SD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Hertfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 225 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 December 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this warm and welcoming school.”
- “This is a school where pupils value everyone’s differences.”
- “Pupils feel safe at school due to the positive relationships they have with adults and peers.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, the subject-specific vocabulary that pupils should learn is not as clearly planned for.”
- “Therefore, teachers do not teach the vocabulary as explicitly as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 60% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Hertfordshire.
- Homerswood Primary and Nursery School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Harwood Hill Junior Mixed Infant and Nursery School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Applecroft School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Peartree Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St John's CofE Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Waterside Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Holy Family Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Welwyn St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
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