Primary
St John's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School, Lemsford
Lemsford Village, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7TR
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 102 of 105 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.0
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Religious character
- Yes
- Diocese
- Diocese of St Albans
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 4.9
- All staff (FTE)
- 9.7
- Pupils per adult
- 10.6
- Pupils
- 103
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected May 2023
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
62%
4 points below the Welwyn Garden City average (66% across 15 schools)
106.0
0.3 below the Welwyn Garden City average (106.3 across 15 schools)
8th of 15 by our score, among the primary schools in Welwyn Garden City we can score - 16 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 104 |
| Average reading score | 106 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 62% |
| Working at a higher standard | 8% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 67% |
| 23/24 | 50% |
| 24/25 | 62% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 108.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| 24/25 | 106.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 106.0 |
| 23/24 | 100.0 |
| 24/25 | 104.0 |
Lemsford Village, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7TR
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Hertfordshire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Michelle Boylan
- Address
- Lemsford Village, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7TR
- Telephone
- 01707322589