Yewtree Primary School
General Information
- Address: Fletcher Way, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 5QR – View on map
- Phone: 01442424920
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Karen Yilmaz
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 22 families put it first for 29 places – 8 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 7 · 2024 7 · 2025 9 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 136
- % eligible for free school meals: 44.2%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Dacorum average)
- English as an additional language: 44% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 35.6% a year (Dacorum 16.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 74% moved to another school, 26% 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: 9.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 31.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 18.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 14 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 11 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 10 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 7 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 8 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 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: 17% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 44 percentage points below the Dacorum average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 24% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 24%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 52% · Writing 37% · Maths 31% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 40%
- Average test scores: reading 100, maths 97
- Based on: 52 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: 48th of 48 junior and primary schools in the area
- #46Westfield Primary School30%
- #47Oakleaf Primary24%
- #48Yewtree Primary School17%
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32nd of 34 primary schools in Dacorum for Ofsted rating
- #30The Reddings Primary SchoolGood
- #31Tudor Primary SchoolGood
- #32Yewtree Primary SchoolGood
- #33St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyRequires improvement
- #34Westfield Primary SchoolRequires improvement
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,248 (2024-25)
16th of 44 primary schools in Dacorum for spending per pupil
- #14Aldbury Church of England Primary and Nursery School£7,258
- #15Little Gaddesden Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School£7,253
- #16Yewtree Primary School£7,248
- #17Brockswood Primary School£7,206
- #18Saint Albert the Great Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy£7,200
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