Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School
Hazelwood Lane, Abbots Langley, WD5 0LG
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mrs Parv Qureshi
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 450
- Pupils on roll
- 418
- URN
- 117178
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01923262229
About this school
Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School is a community primary school in Abbots Langley. It teaches children aged 3 to 11 and has 418 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Overall judgement at the last full inspection
This inspection took place under the previous framework, which gave a single overall grade. Ofsted now publishes report cards instead, so newer inspections of other schools will look different. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Early years
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Effective
A short monitoring inspection followed on : inspectors found the school has improved significantly.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 59 | 55 | 57 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 59% | 65% | 47% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 14% | 13% | 4% |
| Expected standard in reading | 73% | 85% | 67% |
| Expected standard in maths | 75% | 80% | 53% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 83% | 87% | 72% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 106.0 | 107.0 | 102.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 105.0 | 105.0 | 101.0 |
| Reading progress | 0.00 | - | - |
| Writing progress | 0.00 | - | - |
| Maths progress | +0.10 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Hertfordshire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 59% | 59.1% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 65% | 60.6% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 47% | 61% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 4.9% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 4.7% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 4.5% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 439 |
| 2023/24 | 427 |
| 2024/25 | 427 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School compares
Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School ranked 289th of 339 primary schools in Hertfordshire for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 18% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 74% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 47% | 4.5% | 21.8% | 418 | — |
| Divine Saviour Roman Catholic Primary School | 59% | 4.2% | 9.9% | 206 | 0.2 miles |
| Abbots Langley School | 56% | 6.3% | 11.9% | 410 | 0.8 miles |
| Leavesden JMI School | 40% | 5.5% | 28.1% | 389 | 0.8 miles |
| St Paul's Church of England Primary School, Langleybury | 86% | 5.6% | 9.2% | 226 | 0.9 miles |
| Kingsway Infants' School | — | 6.3% | 24.1% | 171 | 1.0 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
Inspection history
-
Ungraded inspection report26 March 2025
- 27 November 2019
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 21.78%
- English as an additional language
- 9.4%
- Overall absence
- 4.45%
- Persistent absence
- 11.7%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Divine Saviour Roman Catholic Primary School0.2 miles
Primary · Abbots Langley
-
Abbots Langley School0.8 miles
Primary · Abbots Langley
-
Leavesden JMI School0.8 miles
Primary · Watford
-
St Paul's Church of England Primary School, Langleybury0.9 miles
Primary · Kings Langley
-
Kingsway Infants' School1.0 miles
Primary · Watford
Other schools in Abbots Langley
- Abbots Langley School Primary
- Bedmond Academy Primary
- Divine Saviour Roman Catholic Primary School Primary
- Breakspeare School Special schools
Common questions
- What year groups does Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School teach?
- Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School teaches children aged 3 to 11. It is a primary school in Abbots Langley.
- Who is the headteacher of Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School?
- The headteacher of Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School is Mrs Parv Qureshi, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School?
- Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School has 418 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 11.
- Is Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School full?
- Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School has capacity for 450 pupils and 418 on roll (93%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School a faith school?
- No. Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School has no designated religious character.
- Does Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School have a nursery?
- Yes. The schools register records Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School as having nursery classes.
- How have Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 59% in 2022/23 and 47% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School rank locally?
- Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School ranked 289th of 339 primary schools in Hertfordshire for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 18% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 74% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School's absence rate?
- Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School's overall absence rate is 4.5% in the latest published census, at or below the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 June 2026.