Oakleaf Primary
General Information
- Address: School Row, Chaulden, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 2JU – View on map
- Phone: 01442503449
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Anjali Majithia
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 8 families put it first for 12 places – 7 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2025 5 · 2026 7
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 56
- % eligible for free school meals: 31.5%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (more mixed than the Dacorum average)
- English as an additional language: 22% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 55.2% a year (Dacorum 16.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 73% moved to another school, 27% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Hertfordshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 33 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 13 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 3 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Hertfordshire (the council area this school is in), not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 7.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 23.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 24.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 15 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
An Ofsted rating for this school hasn't been added yet.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 24% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 37 percentage points below the Dacorum average (61%)
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 58% · Writing 30% · Maths 36% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 45%
- Average test scores: reading 100, maths 97
- Based on: 33 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
Year 6 SATs: 47th of 48 junior and primary schools in the area
- =44Maple Grove Primary School36%
- #46Westfield Primary School30%
- #47Oakleaf Primary24%
- #48Yewtree Primary School17%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,496 (2024-25)
4th of 44 primary schools in Dacorum for spending per pupil
- #2Great Gaddesden Church of England Primary School£9,190
- #3Westfield Primary School£8,632
- #4Oakleaf Primary£8,496
- #5Dundale Primary School and Nursery£8,494
- #6Greenway Primary and Nursery School£7,874
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