Watkins Rise, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 1QB
10 reasons to choose Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School
Top line
Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 68. It is one of the best state primary schools in Potters Bar and one of the 3 best independent or state primaries within 1.5 miles.
School fundamentals
Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School is a state primary school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 3 and 11 years. It is a community school. The school was also rated as Good by Ofsted in its last (2022) 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
Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School has one class per year, and an average class size of 30 pupils.
Exam results
Average Year 6 SATS results from 2016-19 and 2022 show that Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School ranks in the top 20% of schools in the country by attainment. By the same measure, progress score rank the school in the top 28% of schools.
The Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant 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 for Years 4 and 6.
Specialist teaching
Most lessons are taught by the class teacher with some peripatetic and specialist teaching.
Sport at Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant 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 Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School
Art and music are taught as discrete subjects to all pupils. DT, drama, dance integrated into other subjects. Choir. There are some extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Out of school hours care from 7.50am to 5.30pm provided by external contractors.
Find another school near Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School
Stormont School (0.7 miles); Lochinver House School (1 mile); St John’s Preparatory School, Potters Bar (1.6 miles).
The Wroxham School (1.7 miles); Hadley Wood Primary School (2.8 miles); Brookmans Park Primary School (3 miles).
Queenswood School, Hatfield (2.3 miles); St John’s Senior School, Enfield (2.3 miles); Mount House School (St Martha’s School) (3.4 miles).
Dame Alice Owen’s School (1.5 miles); Chancellor’s School (2.9 miles); Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School (3.7 miles).