Hall Place Gardens, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 3SW
10 reasons to choose Maple Primary School
Top line
Maple Primary School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 69. It is one of the best state primary schools in St Albans and one of the 5 best independent or state primaries within 1 mile.
School fundamentals
Maple Primary School is a state primary school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 4 and 11 years. It is a community school. The school was also rated as Good by Ofsted in its last (2021) inspection. It is one of the 20 most oversubscribed state primary schools for first preference Reception place applications in the Hertfordshire LEA.
Average class size
Maple Primary School has one class per year, and an average class size of 31 pupils.
Exam results
Average Year 6 SATS results from 2016-19 and 2022 show that Maple Primary School ranks in the top 11% of schools in the country by attainment. By the same measure, progress score rank the school in the top 29% of schools.
The Maple Primary School curriculum
School curriculum also includes PSHE, French. Core subjects are taught separately, but foundation subjects, such as geography and history, are taught as half-termly topics with cross-curricular links to other subjects. The school offers each child a handful of extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 5.
Specialist teaching
Most lessons are taught by the class teacher with some peripatetic and specialist teaching.
Sport at Maple Primary School
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at Maple Primary School
Art and music are taught as discrete subjects to all pupils. DT, drama, dance integrated into other subjects. Choir and orchestra. There are some extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
School hours are from 8.45am to 3.15pm though before and after school clubs may extend the day from 8.00am to 4.30pm.
Find another school near Maple Primary School
St Columba’s College Prep (1.3 miles); Aldwickbury School (4.7 miles); St Albans High School for Girls, Wheathampstead House Prep (4.8 miles).
Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School (0.7 miles); Ss Alban and Stephen Catholic Primary School, St Albans (0.8 miles); St Peter’s School (0.8 miles).
St Albans High School for Girls (0.1 miles); St Albans Independent College (0.6 miles); St Albans School (0.8 miles).
Loreto College (0.4 miles); St Albans Girls’ School (1.1 miles); Sandringham School (1.8 miles).