Schools in Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City has 23 schools including 16 primaries and 3 secondaries, all within Hertfordshire County Council's co-ordinated admissions area. The town was designed as a planned settlement, and its school estate reflects that — schools are distributed relatively evenly across residential neighbourhoods, which keeps most address-based catchments manageable in size.
Four of the 21 schools with capacity data are oversubscribed, so proximity remains the deciding tiebreaker at popular primaries. Three faith schools operate their own priority criteria. Hertfordshire also has selective grammar provision elsewhere in the county, but the Welwyn Garden City secondary schools are all non-selective comprehensives — distance from home to school is the primary tiebreaker once sibling priority is exhausted.
School demand in Welwyn Garden City
Across the 21 schools in Welwyn Garden City with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 89%. 4 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
3 schools in Welwyn Garden City have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
11 of the schools in Welwyn Garden City are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Hertfordshire, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
11 of the schools in Welwyn Garden City have a current Ofsted rating, of which 9 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Welwyn Garden City: 1 oversubscribed (16)
Templewood Primary School
Primary · Community school
Welwyn Garden City · AL8 7SD
Holwell Primary School
Primary · Community school
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 3RP
Harwood Hill Junior Mixed Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school
Welwyn Garden City · AL8 7AG
Homerswood Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Community school
Welwyn Garden City · AL8 7RF
Panshanger Primary School
Primary · Community school
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 1QY
Commonswood Primary & Nursery School
Primary · Community school
WELWYN GARDEN CITY · AL7 4RU
St John's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School, Lemsford
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Welwyn Garden City · AL8 7TR
Our Lady Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 3TF
Swallow Dell Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Community school
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 3JP
Applecroft School
Primary · Academy converter
Welwyn Garden City · AL8 6JZ
Waterside Academy
Primary · Academy converter
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 1NZ
Springmead Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 2HB
Peartree Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 3XW
Watchlytes Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 2AZ
Creswick Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 4FL
The Holy Family Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 1PG
Secondary Schools in Welwyn Garden City (3)
Stanborough School
Secondary · Academy converter
Welwyn Garden City · AL8 6YR
Monk's Walk School
Secondary · Academy converter
Welwyn Garden City · AL8 7NL
Ridgeway Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 2AF
Other Schools in Welwyn Garden City (4)
Ludwick Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 3RP
Lakeside School
Not applicable · Community special school
Welwyn Garden City · AL8 6YN
Knightsfield School
Not applicable · Academy special converter
Welwyn Garden City · AL8 7LW
James Marks Academy
Not applicable · Free schools special
Welwyn Garden City · AL7 4RZ
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Welwyn Garden City are set by Hertfordshire and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.