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Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School, Rickmansworth

Good
Primary
Community school
Mixed
Ages 5–11

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School is a primary school for pupils aged 5 to 11 in Rickmansworth. It was rated Good at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in December 2013. Ofsted's ungraded inspection in June 2025 did not change this grade. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the highest of the 15 schools in Rickmansworth with published results, and 172nd of 14,452 across England. For 2026 entry it had 1.4 first-choice applications for every place. It was 93% full in 2025.

SATs results
Above England average
Ofsted
Good (2013)
Demand
Oversubscribed
Attendance
Better than England average
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Reception applications for September 2027 close in 80 days

Deadline Friday 15 January 2027. Apply to Hertfordshire (the council where you live). Offers on 16 April.

Data last updated 27 Oct 2026

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School in detail

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School in its own words

From the headteacher's welcome: "At Rickmansworth Park JMI School, the children are at the heart of all that we do. We have a strong tradition of promoting excellence and supporting ambition within a caring, happy and safe environment."

The school runs after-school care.

Coming up: an open day on Wednesday 11 November 2026 at 9am, an open day on Monday 16 November 2026 at 1pm, an open day on Tuesday 1 December 2026 at 9am and an open day on Tuesday 15 December 2026 at 7pm. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

All school open days in Hertfordshire

Headteacher's welcome (school website)Wraparound care (school website)Open days on the school's site (school website)

Source: The school's own website

Results

In 2025, 100% of Year 6 pupils at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School reached the expected standard in reading and 97% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 79% and 76% in Hertfordshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 97% in reading and 93% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

Getting a place at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School

For September 2026 entry, 43 families put Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School as their first choice and 128 named it as one of their preferences, for 30 places offered. That is 1.4 first choices for every place. 15 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

Admissions history and your chances at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School

Compared with nearby schools

The nearest other state primary schools to Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School are Harvey Road Primary School (0.7 miles, Outstanding, 90% reading, 94% maths); Yorke Mead Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 93% reading, 82% maths); St Mary's Rickmansworth CofE Primary School (1 mile, 76% reading, 64% maths); and Malvern Way Infant and Nursery School (1.2 miles, Outstanding).

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School's 2025 results were higher than all 3 of them.

Harvey Road Primary SchoolYorke Mead Primary SchoolSt Mary's Rickmansworth CofE Primary SchoolMalvern Way Infant and Nursery School

What parents say

93 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School (as of September 2025): 98% would recommend the school, 99% say their child is happy there and 78% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they are kept well informed about progress (100%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (78%).

Who goes there

6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 32.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (54%), Mixed (15%) and Asian (12%).

In 2026, 28 pupils (13.9%) received SEN support and 2 (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 autism.

Getting there

The nearest railway station is Rickmansworth Rail Station, about 640 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Roman Catholic Church (near), 130 metres away.

The area around the school

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant 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 82 crimes within a mile of the school, most often anti-social behaviour, violence and sexual offences and public order offences. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Hertfordshire (138).

Suspensions and exclusions

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.

Secondary schools nearby

The secondary schools closest to Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School are Saint Joan of Arc Catholic School (0.2 miles), Rickmansworth School (0.4 miles) and The Reach Free School (1.8 miles).

Saint Joan of Arc Catholic SchoolRickmansworth SchoolThe Reach Free School

Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; Ofsted Parent View; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); data.police.uk street-level crime; DfE exclusions statistics

Location

Likely (~642m)Possible (~917m)Unlikely (~1.2km)

Our estimate from how close the nearest similar schools are and how oversubscribed the council's schools are. It is not a published boundary.

Key Information

DfE GIAS
Head:Mrs Natalie Catalano
Pupils:201
LA:Hertfordshire
Phone:01923770265
Address:Park Road, Rickmansworth, WD3 1HU
Status:open

Ofsted Rating

Ofsted · 1 year ago

This judgement is from December 2013, 12 years ago, longer than Ofsted's usual 4-year cycle: the school may have changed since.

-

Overall

Outstanding

Quality of Education

Outstanding

Behaviour & Attitudes

Outstanding

Personal Development

Outstanding

Leadership & Management

Outstanding

Early Years

Inspected 3 June 2025View full report
URN:117304
UKPRN:10069548
Diocese:Not applicable
Constituency:South West Hertfordshire
Urban/Rural:Urban: Nearer to a major town or city

Ofsted Insights

From Ofsted's June 2025 inspection report.

What This School Does Well

This is an outstanding school where children feel happy, safe and well cared for. Teachers are experts at explaining concepts clearly, helping pupils remember and apply their learning across different subjects. The school creates a warm, inclusive environment where all children, including those with additional needs, thrive and exceed expectations.

Key Strengths

  • Exceptional quality of education with highly ambitious and well-planned curriculum delivered by expert teachers
  • Reading is a real strength with pupils receiving carefully targeted phonics teaching and access to high-quality books
  • Outstanding early years provision with stimulating learning experiences that build communication and thinking skills
  • Exemplary behaviour across the school with pupils being polite, focused and supportive of each other
  • Comprehensive support for pupils with SEND who access the full curriculum and achieve as well as their peers

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective and the school has created an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts pupils' interests first.

Extracurricular Activities

Sports competitions, coding, street dance, author visits, book fairs, reading buddy sessions, school council roles, digital leader roles, residentials, theatre trips, environmental projects, creative workshops, charity events

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School is an outstanding school where being a pupil is described as a joyful and enriching experience. The school sets very high expectations for every pupil, which are consistently met and exceeded, with pupils achieving in the top few percent nationally in Year 6 tests.

At a Glance

6.0%

Free School Meals

No

Boarding

No

Nursery

No

Sixth Form

No

Special Measures

What Parents Think

93 responses
Would recommend98%
Child is happy99%
Child does well99%
High expectations98%
Feels safe98%
Well behaved98%
Bullying dealt with (of parents with a view)78%
Kept informed100%
Handles concerns (of parents who raised one)90%
Wider development96%

Source: Ofsted Parent View, responses as at September 2025 - % who strongly agree or agree

Primary Performance (KS2)

Academic year 2024/25

KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)

2024
2025
Reading+3ppMaths+4ppWriting-3pp

Reading has remained stable at around 100% (2024 to 2025). Maths has improved from 93% to 97% (2024 to 2025). Writing has remained stable at around 97% (2024 to 2025).

Class Sizes

28.3

Avg class size

24.0

Infant (KS1)

30.5

KS2

3

Total classes

1 class with more than 30 pupils

2025/26 academic year

How Does This School Compare?

Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools

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Before and after school care

Clubs on Ofsted's childcare register at or near Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School.

  • Mini Bytes Services Limited (trading as Code Ninjas Borehamwood)800m away · Not yet graded

Term dates

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School is a community school, so its term dates are set by Hertfordshire. Training (INSET) days, when pupils are not in school, vary by school: check the school's own calendar.

2026 to 2027

  • Autumn term: Tuesday 1 September to Friday 18 December 2026 (half term Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2026)
  • Spring term: Monday 4 January to Thursday 25 March 2027 (half term Monday 15 February to Friday 19 February 2027)
  • Summer term: Monday 12 April to Thursday 22 July 2027 (half term Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June 2027)

2027 to 2028

  • Autumn term: Wednesday 1 September to Friday 17 December 2027 (half term Monday 25 October to Friday 29 October 2027)
  • Spring term: Tuesday 4 January to Friday 31 March 2028 (half term Monday 14 February to Friday 18 February 2028)
  • Summer term: Tuesday 18 April to Monday 24 July 2028 (half term Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2028)

Source: Hertfordshire term dates

Getting There

Train Stations

Rickmansworth Rail Station
643m · 10 min walk

Tube / Metro / Tram

Rickmansworth Underground Station (north entrance)
658m · 11 min walk

Bus Stops

Roman Catholic Church (nr)
131m · 2 min walk
Scots Bridge (opp)
138m · 2 min walk
St Joan of Arc School (o/s)
324m · 5 min walk
Rickmansworth Railway Station (Stop C)
508m · 8 min walk
Northway (W) (Westbound)
542m · 9 min walk

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Safety and surroundings

Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)

Collisions
7
Fatal
0
Serious
1
Children hurt
0

Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 6 slight.

No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt.

1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.

The typical figure for schools in Hertfordshire is 9 (the median across 590 schools, same distance and years).

Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Capacity & Demand

School Occupancy

93%

Near capacity

195 pupils

210 places

15 spare places in 2025

2025, DfE school capacity data

Area Demand Pressure - Rickmansworth

Low pressure
New homes approved:913
Projected new pupils:228

Based on MHCLG Live Table 122 (2024-25, last 5 years) for Rickmansworth

Across Hertfordshire council

Low demand council-wide0.85 applications per place

Places available

14,776

Applications

12,543

Got 1st preference

89.1%

Got preferred school

98.4%

All primary applications across Hertfordshire council (2026/27), not just this school.

This school: Oversubscribed

Inspection History(7)

3 June 2025
Quality of EducationOutstanding
Behaviour & AttitudesOutstanding
Personal DevelopmentOutstanding
Leadership & ManagementOutstanding
Early YearsOutstanding
16 April 2024

Ungraded inspection: The school remains Good and may be improving; its next inspection will be a full graded one.

4 October 2018

SEND & SEN Provision

SEN Overview

28

SEN Support

2

EHC Plans

14.9%

of Total Pupils

2026 academic year

Provision & Specialist Facilities

No specialist provision recorded

Pupils by Need Type

Autistic Spectrum Disorder9
Speech, Language & Communication8
Specific Learning Difficulty7
Social, Emotional & Mental Health4
Physical Disability2
EHC Plan
SEN Support

Pupil Demographics

Ethnicity

White British
53.7%
Asian
12.0%
Black
3.5%
Mixed
15.0%
Chinese
2.0%
Other
2.0%
Unclassified
1.0%

2026 academic year

Key Indicators

Free School Meals6.0%
English as Additional Language32.8%

201

Total Pupils

104

Boys

97

Girls

2026 academic year

Workforce

12

Teachers

16.8:1

Pupil-teacher ratio

£58,184

Mean salary

2026 data

School Funding

£5,399

Per pupil

£1143k

Total funding

£17k

Pupil premium

Deprivation£23,539
EAL funding£17,266
Lump sum£172,300

2025-26 financial year allocations

Pupil Absence
2024/25

3.7%

Overall absence

3.4%

Persistent absence

175

Enrolments

Authorised2.9%
Unauthorised0.8%
Persistent (10%+)3.4%
Severe (50%+)1.1%

Absence trend

3.3%
18/19
2.0%
20/21
4.5%
21/22
4.2%
22/23
4.1%
23/24
3.7%
24/25
Overall absence rate

Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.

Secondary Schools Nearby

Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to

Questions parents ask about Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School

What are SATs results like at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School?

Of the pupils at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 100% reached the expected standard in reading and 97% did so in maths.

What is Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School's Ofsted rating?

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School's most recent Ofsted inspection, in June 2025, was ungraded, so it gave no overall grade. At its last graded inspection, in December 2013, it was rated Good.

What is the catchment area for Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School?

No fixed boundary. When Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School is oversubscribed, Hertfordshire allocates places by its published criteria, usually ending with home-to-school distance.

Is it hard to get a place at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School?

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School was not full in 2025: it ran at 93% of its 210 places.

How big are the classes at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School?

Classes at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School average 28.3 pupils (2025/26). 1 class has more than 30 pupils - infant classes are capped at 30 by law, with limited exceptions.

How many pupils go to Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School?

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School has around 201 pupils on roll. 6% are eligible for free school meals.

What is attendance like at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School?

3.7% of sessions were missed at Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School in 2024/25. 3.4% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).

How do I apply to Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School?

Apply through Hertfordshire's coordinated admissions process, naming Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School on your application. Applications for Reception places starting in September 2027 close on Friday 15 January 2027, and offers are made on Friday 16 April 2027.

Does Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School have a breakfast club or after-school club?

Ofsted's childcare register lists an out-of-school club within a kilometre of Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School: Mini Bytes Services Limited (trading as Code Ninjas Borehamwood) (800m away, registered, not yet graded). The school may also run its own clubs, which don't have to register with Ofsted.

What are Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School's term dates?

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School is a community school, so its term dates are set by Hertfordshire. In 2026 to 2027: Autumn term: Tuesday 1 September to Friday 18 December 2026 (half term Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2026); Spring term: Monday 4 January to Thursday 25 March 2027 (half term Monday 15 February to Friday 19 February 2027); Summer term: Monday 12 April to Thursday 22 July 2027 (half term Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June 2027). In 2027 to 2028: Autumn term: Wednesday 1 September to Friday 17 December 2027 (half term Monday 25 October to Friday 29 October 2027); Spring term: Tuesday 4 January to Friday 31 March 2028 (half term Monday 14 February to Friday 18 February 2028); Summer term: Tuesday 18 April to Monday 24 July 2028 (half term Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2028).

How many road collisions happen near Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School?

Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 7 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 1 serious and 6 slight. No children aged 0 to 15 were among the people hurt. 1 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Hertfordshire is 9 (the median across 590 schools, same distance and years).

Where is Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School?

Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School is at Park Road, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3 1HU.

Sources: Hertfordshire term dates; Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)

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