Community school · Primary
Sawbridgeworth · CM21 9DD · Hertfordshire
Ages 7–11
Status: Open
0.3 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 117305
Mandeville Primary School
Community school · Sawbridgeworth · CM21 0BL
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
318
Local authority
Hertfordshire
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, 318 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 14.3%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 117305
Location
- Address
- West Road
- Postcode
- CM21 0BL
- Town
- Sawbridgeworth
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- District
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 318
- Boys / girls
- 172 / 146
- School capacity
- 326
- Capacity fill
- 318 / 326 (98%)
- Free school meals
- 14.3%
- FSM pupils
- 44
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Kara Hales
- Telephone
- 01279723737
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2023-02-21
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 63%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 20%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0
Absence
Pupil absence rates from DfE pupil absence in schools in England. Persistent absence means 10% or more of sessions missed; severe absence means 50% or more. Lower figures are better.
Academic year 2023/24
Overall absence
6.5%
Persistent absence
18.0%
Unauthorised
1.1%
- Authorised absence
- 5.4%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.6%
- Enrolments in measure
- 189
Recent years
- 2022/23
- Overall 5.8% · Persistent 15.3%
- 2021/22
- Overall 5.5% · Persistent 13.4%