Graded inspection · Jun 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 |
Inspection history
- 25 June 2024Graded inspection: Outstanding
- 26 April 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving)
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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 entry941 applications · 228 places offered · 366 named it first
- 2026 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2025 4.2; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2024 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2023 3.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2022 4.3; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2021 4.4; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2020 4.8; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2019 4.6; Hertfordshire median median 3.2
- 2018 4.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2017 5.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2016 4.2; Hertfordshire median median 3.4
- 2015 4.4; 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 | 228 | 941 | 4.1 | 366 | 1.61 |
| Sep 2025 | 232 | 977 | 4.2 | 334 | 1.44 |
| Sep 2024 | 234 | 949 | 4.1 | 350 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2023 | 237 | 912 | 3.9 | 300 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2022 | 236 | 1,022 | 4.3 | 308 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2021 | 216 | 948 | 4.4 | 290 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2020 | 211 | 1,005 | 4.8 | 277 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2019 | 214 | 987 | 4.6 | 252 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2018 | 215 | 975 | 4.5 | 280 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2017 | 211 | 1,066 | 5.1 | 273 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2016 | 216 | 909 | 4.2 | 245 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2015 | 215 | 953 | 4.4 | 254 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2014 | 204 | 1,001 | 4.9 | 268 | 1.31 |
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.) | 213 | 53.5 | 62% | 80% | – |
| 2024/25 | 211 | 55.4 | 67% | 82% | – |
| 2023/24 | 205 | 54.7 | 70% | 82% | +0.10 |
| 2022/23 | 213 | 52.5 | 63% | 84% | −0.10 |
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 Broxbourne SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20244.1applications per place 53.5Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · HertfordshireGood20232.8applications per place 45.6Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · Hertfordshire20262.1applications per place 46.2Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · HertfordshireSpecial measures Inadequate20221.8applications per place 40.1Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20233.0applications per place 50.6Attainment 8
- 4.6 km · Hertfordshire20264.2applications per place 44.2Attainment 8
- 5.5 km · HertfordshireGood20231.8applications per place 42.8Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · Essex20260.9applications per place 39.7Attainment 8
- 6.6 km · HertfordshireRemains Outstanding20245.4applications per place 52.9Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136396 · 919/4101
- Trust
- The Broxbourne School
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,260 pupils · 1,442 on roll
- Free school meals
- 12.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2011
- Replaced
- The Broxbourne School (URN 117529)
- Address
- Badgers Walk, Broxbourne, EN10 7FU
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · Broxbourne
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources