Thorn Grove Primary School

Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.47 miles

Nearest School · Published by Hertfordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.47

0.59

0.48

0.54

0.55

0.60

0.54

0.47

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Thorn Grove Primary School is a primary school in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 23 October 2024. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Thorn Grove 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	0.47 mi
Reception 2025	0.54 mi
Reception 2024	0.60 mi
Reception 2023	0.55 mi
Reception 2022	0.54 mi
Reception 2021	0.48 mi
Reception 2020	0.59 mi
Reception 2019	0.47 mi
Reception 2018	0.40 mi
Reception 2017	0.48 mi
Reception 2016	0.21 mi
Reception 2015	0.46 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%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Hertfordshire.
Reception 2026 had 26 first-choice applications for 28 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
For Reception 2026, 8 of the 77 applications (10%) came from families living outside Hertfordshire, and 2 offers went to them.
The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 under one of its admission criteria lived 0.47 miles away, nearer the school than in 2025.

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: Thorn Grove, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 5LD
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 223 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 18.8% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 21.8

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Standards maintained Inspected 23 October 2024

Strengths

“Pupils arrive at school happy and excited in the morning.”
“They look forward eagerly to the learning challenges that their teachers have in store for them.”
“Pupils learn an ambitious curriculum that is enriched by a wide variety of interesting extra-curricular experiences.”

To improve

“However, pupils do not get enough opportunities to produce high-quality writing, and teachers’ expectations about the quality of writing which pupils produce are not consistently high enough.”
“At times and across the curriculum, pupils’ writing lacks depth and thoroughness.”
“However, these initiatives are very new and some pupils still have high levels of absence.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 November 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: 26 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 26 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.

Summercroft Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
All Saints Church of England Primary School and Nursery, Bishop's Stortford 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Thorley Hill Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
St Michael's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Windhill21 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Richard Whittington Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School B/S 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
Northgate Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published