St Peter's School

About St Peter's School

St Peter's School is a state primary in Hertfordshire, serving 365 pupils aged 3 to 11 in St Albans. It sits within a competitive local landscape: among 401 primary schools in the local authority, it ranks 63rd overall, placing it comfortably in the top quarter. The top-performing peers in the area are Little Gaddesden Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Harvey Road Primary School, and The Russell School, all of which score higher on the same ranking metric. St Peter's itself holds a Good rating from Ofsted, confirmed in an ungraded inspection in November 2023 where the school was judged to remain Good. Its previous graded inspection, in 2014, also rated overall effectiveness as Good, with leadership and management and early years provision both judged Good at that time. The school is non-religious and mixed, with a headteacher, Gillie Masterton, leading a setting that includes nursery provision for the youngest children.

Academically, St Peter's performs solidly against local and national benchmarks. In the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 assessments, 77% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, well above the Hertfordshire local authority average of 64%. The school’s ranking score of 77 on the KS2 reading, writing and maths expected metric places it in the top 25% nationally, and 19th out of 40 schools in the St Albans district. Subject-level results show 83% of pupils reached the expected standard in both reading and maths, with 80% achieving the same in writing. At the higher standard, 13% of pupils scored highly across all three subjects, with reading and maths each seeing 33% reaching that level, and writing at 27%. Average scaled scores were 105 in reading and 106 in maths, both slightly above the national average of 100. Progress scores are not available in the data, so it is not possible to compare how much value the school adds relative to pupils' starting points.

The school is oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, there were 137 applications for 51 places, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.69, with 44 first-preference offers made. Facilities include a library, playing fields, a forest school area, a sensory room, art studios, a dining hall and a chapel. Sports on offer include gymnastics, netball, dance, tennis and athletics, while clubs cover drama, choir and chess. St Peter's has a broad range of SEND provisions, supporting pupils with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, physical disabilities, and autistic spectrum disorder. This makes it a practical choice for families seeking a mainstream primary with strong academic outcomes and a well-resourced approach to inclusion, particularly those living within the St Albans catchment area.

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