Bromet Primary School, Watford

Ofsted's report card from its 21 April 2026 inspection grades Bromet Primary School on 7 areas: 4 strong standard and 3 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Pupils demonstrate positive attitudes to school."

Early years - Strong standard. "Before children start school, leaders work with families, specialists, previous early years settings and children themselves to understand children's needs and design their provision carefully."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders are ambitious for all pupils."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders place improving pupils' life chances at the heart of their work."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils achieve well overall."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have designed a curriculum that identifies the important knowledge pupils should learn and the order in which they should learn it."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders provide clear direction and have established a positive culture of wanting the best for pupils, across the school."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should improve the consistency with which teachers check and build pupils' understanding across the wider curriculum so pupils connect knowledge and apply learning with greater confidence beyond English and mathematics".

From the headteacher's welcome: "As Headteacher, I am proud to introduce Bromet Primary School as an inclusive and nurturing community where every child is valued as an individual."

The school runs after-school care.

Coming up: an open day on Monday 16 November 2026 and an open day on Thursday 7 January 2027. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2025, 93% of Year 6 pupils at Bromet Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 88% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 79% and 76% in Hertfordshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 83% in reading and 88% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 27 families put Bromet Primary School as their first choice and 124 named it as one of their preferences, for 40 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Bromet Primary School are Bushey and Oxhey Infant School (0.5 miles, Good); Watford Field School (Infant & Nursery) (0.6 miles, Good); Field Junior School (0.6 miles, Outstanding, 87% reading, 92% maths); and Bushey Manor Junior School (0.7 miles, Good, 78% reading, 83% maths).

Bromet Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 2 of them.

Bromet Primary School is one of 11 schools run by Agora Learning Partnership, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 69% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

8.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 27% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (43%), Asian (25%) and Mixed (14%).

In 2026, 34 pupils (12.6%) received SEN support and 3 (1.1%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia.

The nearest railway station is Bushey Rail Station, about 470 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).

2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Deacons Hill (near), 390 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Bromet Primary School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 354 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Hertfordshire (138), as is usual near a town centre.

Bromet Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.

The secondary schools closest to Bromet Primary School are Watford Grammar School for Girls (0.8 miles), The Grange Academy (0.9 miles), Westfield Academy (1.3 miles) and Bushey Meads School (1.7 miles).