Primary
Swallow Dell Primary and Nursery School
Blackthorn Road, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 3JP
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 418 of 450 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.6
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Nursery
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 23.1
- All staff (FTE)
- 47.3
- Pupils per adult
- 8.6
- Pupils
- 406
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 June 2025
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationGood
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.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
May 2017
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
SATs results
80%
14 points above the Welwyn Garden City average (66% across 15 schools)
107.0
0.7 above the Welwyn Garden City average (106.3 across 15 schools)
1st 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 | 106 |
| Average reading score | 107 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 80% |
| Working at a higher standard | 13% |
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 | 32% |
| 23/24 | 35% |
| 24/25 | 80% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 102.0 |
| 23/24 | 102.0 |
| 24/25 | 107.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 98.0 |
| 23/24 | 99.0 |
| 24/25 | 106.0 |
Blackthorn Road, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 3JP
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
- James Berry
- Address
- Blackthorn Road, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 3JP
- Telephone
- 01707339079