United Kingdom / Regions / Watford
Watford
East of England, England · population ~97k · 38 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 30 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Watford
38 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (30 of 38 here), 95% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 38 schools.
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Watford Grammar School for Boys | Secondary | 1,610 | Outstanding | 13/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Watford Grammar School for Girls | Secondary | 1,429 | Outstanding | 05/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Westfield Academy | Secondary | 1,335 | Good· | 05/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Future Academies Watford | Secondary | 1,018 | Not graded | 29/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Grove Academy | Primary | 486 | Not graded | 20/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Laurance Haines School | Primary | 468 | Not graded | 05/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Beechfield School | Primary | 458 | Good | 24/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Holy Rood Catholic Primary School | Primary | 456 | Outstanding | 20/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Anthony's Catholic Primary School | Primary | 455 | Good | 21/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Cherry Tree Primary School | Primary | 444 | Good | 13/07/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Knutsford Primary Academy | Primary | 439 | Good | 11/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Orchard Primary School | Primary | 435 | Good· | 22/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Central Primary School | Primary | 411 | Requires Improvement | 23/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Watford St John's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 410 | Not graded | 25/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Leavesden JMI School | Primary | 408 | Good | 28/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ascot Road Primary School | Primary | 383 | Good | 14/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Cassiobury Junior School | Primary | 360 | Good | 24/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Lanchester Primary School | Primary | 334 | Not graded | 27/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Cassiobury Infant and Nursery School | Primary | 309 | Good | 11/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Bromet Primary School | Primary | 274 | Good· | 13/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.