Graded inspection · Jul 2023 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entryReception entry, September 2026: 1.4 per place (34 applications for 24 places).
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2022 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sep 2020 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sep 2018 | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 1 | 1.00 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 28 | 47.7 | 54% | 79% | – |
| 2024/25 | 25 | 51.0 | 64% | 80% | – |
| 2023/24 | 29 | 46.6 | 55% | 66% | +1.57 |
| 2022/23 | 25 | 46.8 | 40% | 56% | +2.18 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Steiner Academy HerefordThis schoolThis schoolGood202347.7Attainment 8
- 7.1 km · Herefordshire, County of20261.2applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 8.0 km · Herefordshire, County ofRemains Good · concerns noted20242.1applications per place 41.6Attainment 8
- 10.1 km · Herefordshire, County ofGood20231.8applications per place 50.1Attainment 8
- 10.3 km · Herefordshire, County of20261.8applications per place 46.3Attainment 8
- 10.6 km · Herefordshire, County ofRequires improvement20242.8applications per place 40.7Attainment 8
- 11.8 km · Herefordshire, County ofStandards maintained20242.3applications per place 53.2Attainment 8
- 13.6 km · Herefordshire, County ofGraded · no overall grade20241.4applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 15.3 km · Herefordshire, County ofOutstanding20232.1applications per place 51.9Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- All-through
- URN · DfE number
- 135672 · 884/6906
- Trust
- Steiner Academy, Hereford
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 332 pupils · 345 on roll
- Free school meals
- 22.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2008
- Replaced
- Hereford Waldorf School (URN 117039)
- Address
- Much Dewchurch, Hereford, HR2 8DL
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources