Roger De Clare First CofE School

Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–9 · Ware, Hertfordshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.60 miles

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

Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)

0.62

1.57

2.01

1.57

0.74

0.60

0.65

0.60

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Roger De Clare First CofE School is a primary school in Ware, Hertfordshire for ages 3–9 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 April 2024. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.

Roger De Clare First CofE 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	0.60 mi
Reception 2025	0.65 mi
Reception 2024	0.60 mi
Reception 2023	0.74 mi
Reception 2022	1.57 mi
Reception 2021	2.01 mi
Reception 2020	1.57 mi
Reception 2019	0.62 mi
Reception 2018	1.00 mi
Reception 2017	0.63 mi
Reception 2016	1.57 mi
Reception 2015	0.62 mi

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

What the figures show

The last Reception 2026 place went to a child living 0.60 miles from the school, among children for whom it was the nearest school.
The Reception 2026 last distance was about the same as in 2025 and in 2015, though it swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2015 to 2016.
For Reception 2026 there were 27 first-choice applications for 27 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
11.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 15.9% 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: Station Road, Puckeridge, Ware, SG11 1TF
Type: Voluntary controlled school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 3–9
Religious character: Church of England
Council: Hertfordshire
Pupils on roll: 211 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 11.8% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 18.7

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

Ofsted

Good Inspected 30 April 2024

Strengths

“Pupils are happy at school because they feel cared for and safe.”
“There are warm, welcoming relationships between staff and pupils.”
“At playtimes, pupils enjoy being active.”

To improve

“However, the effectiveness of the delivery of the curriculum varies in a few classes.”
“Where this is the case, pupils do not achieve as well as they should.”
“In a few classes, adaptations are not precise enough to address pupils’ barriers to learning.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 27 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 27 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.

St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
Jenyns First School and Nursery 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
Little Hadham Primary School 3.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
Puller Memorial, Church of England, Voluntary Aided Primary School 3.2 mi Good Last distance published
St Andrew's CE Primary School and Nursery 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Buntingford First School 3.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Little Munden Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 3.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Furneux Pelham Church of England School 3.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published