Willow Tree Primary School

Primary
Academy converter
Ages 3 to 11

URN 151528 · Hertfordshire · INCLUSIVE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

In Hertfordshire

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

19 April 2023

Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement
Personal development: Good
Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Early years provision: Requires improvement
Safeguarding is effective: Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Full inspection (section 5)

Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

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About the school

Pupils on roll: 185
Capacity: 274
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Age range: 3 to 11
Sixth form: Does not have a sixth form
Gender: Mixed
Trust: INCLUSIVE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Opened: 1 December 2025
Setting: Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency: Watford
Deprivation of the area (IDACI): Decile 5 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: Tolpits Lane, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 6LL

Website: www.willowtree.herts.sch.uk

Telephone: 01923225188

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Sources and corrections

Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.

Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))

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