The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Victoria Church of England Infant and Nursery School

URN 117423 · Primary · Voluntary aided school · Hertfordshire

Prince Edward Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 3HA

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 28 families named Victoria Church of England Infant and Nursery School as their first preference, and the school made 37 offers.

That is 0.76 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 5% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 5% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.84 in 2021–2022 and 0.74 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 28 90 37 0.76
2024 30 104 41 0.73
2023 43 122 50 0.86
2022 40 109 49 0.82
2021 49 114 57 0.86
2020 33 121 59 0.56
2019 29 100 35 0.83
2018 44 105 48 0.92
2017 41 104 45 0.91
2016 23 105 34 0.68
2015 64 150 60 1.07
2014 49 129 56 0.88

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2023 to 202620232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 12 May 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Early years: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 3 October 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 8.2 7.2 0.0 1.0 12.2%
2023/24 8.8 6.8 2.0 0.0 22.7%
2022/23 10.0 6.0 4.0 0.0 40.0%
2021/22 7.6 5.0 1.1 1.5 34.2%
2020/21 7.8 6.8 1.0 0.0 12.8%
2019/20 7.5 6.7 0.0 0.9 12.0%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Victoria Church of England Infant and Nursery School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.