Leavesden JMI School

Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Watford, Hertfordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.40 miles

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

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.36

0.31

0.26

0.31

0.38

0.28

0.40

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Leavesden JMI School is a primary school in Watford, Hertfordshire for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 March 2023. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Leavesden JMI 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	0.40 mi
Reception 2025	0.40 mi
Reception 2024	0.28 mi
Reception 2023	0.38 mi
Reception 2022	0.31 mi
Reception 2021	0.26 mi
Reception 2020	0.31 mi
Reception 2019	0.36 mi
Reception 2018	0.33 mi
Reception 2017	0.42 mi
Reception 2016	0.38 mi
Reception 2015	0.36 mi

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

Reception 2026: the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 0.40 miles away, about the same as in 2025 and about the same as in 2015.
43 first-choice applications for 49 offers in Reception 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Hertfordshire that have results.
In 2024/25, 40% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).

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: High Road, Leavesden, Watford, WD25 7QZ
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–11
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 389 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 26.7% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 19.6

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

Ofsted

Good Inspected 28 March 2023

Strengths

“Pupils at Leavesden JMI School are happy, safe and have a nurturing environment in which they thrive.”
“Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
“They like the range of subjects and reading books on offer as well as the space they have within the school grounds.”

To improve

“However, there are a few areas of the curriculum where this is not fully developed.”
“As a result, where this is the case, some teachers are less clear about what to teach and when.”
“In a few areas of the curriculum, assessment is in its early stages of being developed.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 May 2023 (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)	40%	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: 43 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 43 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.

Kingsway Infants' School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Kingsway Junior School 0.2 mi Good
Alban Wood Primary School and Nursery 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
Cherry Tree Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
The Orchard Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Holy Rood Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published