Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Hertfordshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form 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 entry817 applications · 203 places offered · 359 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 4.0; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2025 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2024 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2023 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2022 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2021 4.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2020 3.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2019 3.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.2
- 2018 4.3; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2017 4.6; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2016 4.6; Hertfordshire median median 3.4
- 2015 4.6; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2014 4.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.4
- This school
- Hertfordshire median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, 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 2026 | 203 | 817 | 4.0 | 359 | 1.77 |
| Sep 2025 | 208 | 849 | 4.1 | 340 | 1.63 |
| Sep 2024 | 206 | 846 | 4.1 | 345 | 1.67 |
| Sep 2023 | 207 | 843 | 4.1 | 379 | 1.83 |
| Sep 2022 | 207 | 852 | 4.1 | 370 | 1.79 |
| Sep 2021 | 207 | 924 | 4.5 | 428 | 2.07 |
| Sep 2020 | 210 | 826 | 3.9 | 383 | 1.82 |
| Sep 2019 | 209 | 821 | 3.9 | 338 | 1.62 |
| Sep 2018 | 202 | 867 | 4.3 | 376 | 1.86 |
| Sep 2017 | 179 | 826 | 4.6 | 367 | 2.05 |
| Sep 2016 | 180 | 823 | 4.6 | 348 | 1.93 |
| Sep 2015 | 180 | 821 | 4.6 | 408 | 2.27 |
| Sep 2014 | 179 | 875 | 4.9 | 424 | 2.37 |
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.) | 211 | 65.5 | 80% | 88% | – |
| 2024/25 | 208 | 68.2 | 83% | 91% | – |
| 2023/24 | 209 | 66.9 | 81% | 92% | +0.74 |
| 2022/23 | 208 | 67.6 | 86% | 95% | +0.70 |
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
- Watford Grammar School for GirlsThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20244.0applications per place 65.5Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · Hertfordshire20264.5applications per place 66.3Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20242.0applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20241.4applications per place 48.2Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20256.0applications per place 56.2Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · Hertfordshire20264.7applications per place 51.6Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20252.0applications per place 42.5Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20236.4applications per place 63.7Attainment 8
- 4.9 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20233.1applications per place 50.6Attainment 8
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- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136289 · 919/5403
- Trust
- Watford Grammar School for Girls
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 1,450 pupils · 1,427 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2010
- Replaced
- Watford Grammar School for Girls (URN 117575)
- Address
- Lady's Close, Watford, WD18 0AE
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · Watford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources