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Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School
Townsend Drive, St Albans AL3 5RL
Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School is an academy. It has about 570 boys and girls aged between 5 and 11. Ofsted last inspected the school in November 2013. The present school opened in 2021.
This school is a member of Alban Academies Trust. (Other schools in this trust include Wheatfields Junior Mixed School, Wheatfields Infants' and Nursery School and Skyswood Primary & Nursery School.)
Particular strengths include Finances, Representation, Attainment and Environment. Relative weaknesses include Admissions.
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Finances: Excellent. The school budget has been in surplus
Representation: In balance. The socio-economic mix and ethnic representation are both in balance with the local community. Show details
Attainment: Excellent. Maths attainment is above average, reading is excellent and GPS (grammar, punctuation and spelling) is above average. (This doesn't take into account pupils' prior performance. For that, see Progress.)
Environment: Above average. Air pollution and traffic accidents are quite low, while crime is roughly average.
Progress: About average. Progress in maths is below average, in reading it is excellent and in writing it is about average. (This takes into account pupils' prior performance. For actual grades, see Attainment.)
Attendance: About average. Pupil absence rates and the incidence of persistent absence are both roughly average.
Disadvantaged pupils: About average. Progress in maths is below average. Progress in reading is above average. Progress in writing is below average.
Admissions: Below average. The occupancy rate is quite high.
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