Windermere Primary School
Windermere Avenue, St. Albans, AL1 5QP
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Miss Sarah Gilliver
- Constituency
- St Albans
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 210
- Pupils on roll
- 134
- URN
- 117217
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01727851176
About this school
Windermere Primary School is a community primary school in St. Albans. It teaches children aged 4 to 11 and has 134 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
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Early years
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 29 | 29 | 27 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 41% | 45% | 48% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 3% | 7% | 7% |
| Expected standard in reading | 76% | 66% | 85% |
| Expected standard in maths | 66% | 66% | 70% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 69% | 66% | 74% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 106.0 | 105.0 | 107.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 101.0 | 104.0 | 105.0 |
| Reading progress | -1.40 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -6.50 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -4.60 | - | - |
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 Windermere Primary 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 | 41% | 59.1% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 45% | 60.6% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 48% | 61% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 7.7% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 6.9% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 7.8% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 179 |
| 2023/24 | 177 |
| 2024/25 | 158 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Windermere Primary School compares
Windermere Primary School ranked 285th of 339 primary schools in Hertfordshire for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 19% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 18% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 48% | 7.8% | 35.4% | 134 | — |
| Camp Primary and Nursery School | 71% | 4.3% | 9.4% | 228 | 0.2 miles |
| Cunningham Hill Junior School | 87% | 4% | 14.2% | 236 | 0.3 miles |
| Cunningham Hill Infant School | — | 3.4% | 7.8% | 180 | 0.3 miles |
| Fleetville Junior School | 78% | 3.3% | 6.2% | 358 | 0.6 miles |
| Fleetville Infant and Nursery School | — | 4.3% | 7.7% | 304 | 0.6 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
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 35.44%
- English as an additional language
- 25.3%
- Overall absence
- 7.81%
- Persistent absence
- 20%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Camp Primary and Nursery School0.2 miles
Primary · St Albans
-
Cunningham Hill Junior School0.3 miles
Primary · St Albans
-
Cunningham Hill Infant School0.3 miles
Primary · St Albans
-
Fleetville Junior School0.6 miles
Primary · St Albans
-
Fleetville Infant and Nursery School0.6 miles
Primary · St Albans
Other schools in St. Albans
- Beech Hyde Primary School and Nursery Primary
- Flamstead Village School Primary
- Wheatfields Infants' and Nursery School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Windermere Primary School teach?
- Windermere Primary School teaches children aged 4 to 11. It is a primary school in St. Albans.
- Who is the headteacher of Windermere Primary School?
- The headteacher of Windermere Primary School is Miss Sarah Gilliver, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Windermere Primary School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Windermere Primary 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 Windermere Primary School?
- Windermere Primary School has 134 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 11.
- Is Windermere Primary School full?
- Windermere Primary School has capacity for 210 pupils and 134 on roll (64%), 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 Windermere Primary School a faith school?
- No. Windermere Primary School has no designated religious character.
- Does Windermere Primary School have a nursery?
- No. The schools register records Windermere Primary School as having no nursery classes.
- How have Windermere Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 41% in 2022/23 and 48% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Windermere Primary School rank locally?
- Windermere Primary School ranked 285th of 339 primary schools in Hertfordshire for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 19% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 18% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Windermere Primary School's absence rate?
- Windermere Primary School's overall absence rate is 7.8% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Windermere Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Windermere Primary 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.