Oxhey Wood Primary School
General Information
- Address: Oxhey Drive, South Oxhey, Watford, WD19 7SL – View on map
- Phone: 02084284828
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Mikki Caplan
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 29 families put it first for 53 places – 5 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: 2023 8 · 2024 7 · 2025 7 · 2026 5
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 102
- % eligible for free school meals: 27.6%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Three Rivers average)
- English as an additional language: 53% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15.5% a year (Three Rivers 14.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 23% moved to another school, 77% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, 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.
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: 6.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 15.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 12.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 7.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 22 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 14 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 75% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 14% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points above the Three Rivers average (68%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 74% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 74%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 88% · Writing 77% · Maths 88% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 86%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 108
- Based on: 57 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: 10th of 27 junior and primary schools in the area
- #8St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School79%
- #9Sarratt Church of England Primary School76%
- #10Oxhey Wood Primary School75%
- =11Warren Dell Primary School73%
- =11Yorke Mead Primary School73%
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11th of 22 primary schools in Three Rivers for Ofsted rating
- #9Eastbury Farm Primary SchoolGood
- #10Maple Cross Junior Mixed Infant and Nursery SchoolGood
- #11Oxhey Wood Primary SchoolGood
- #12Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolGood
- #13Sarratt Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,758 (2024-25)
16th of 26 primary schools in Three Rivers for spending per pupil
- #14Harvey Road Primary School£6,825
- #15Abbots Langley School£6,806
- #16Oxhey Wood Primary School£6,758
- #17Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School£6,723
- #18Chorleywood Primary School£6,708
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