Graded inspection · Dec 2023 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 entry751 applications · 186 places offered · 331 named it first
- 2026 4.0; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2025 3.7; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2024 3.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2023 3.8; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2022 3.8; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2021 4.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2020 3.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2019 4.2; Hertfordshire median median 3.2
- 2018 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2017 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2016 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.4
- 2015 4.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2014 4.0; 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 | 186 | 751 | 4.0 | 331 | 1.78 |
| Sep 2025 | 191 | 707 | 3.7 | 316 | 1.65 |
| Sep 2024 | 191 | 742 | 3.9 | 315 | 1.65 |
| Sep 2023 | 189 | 713 | 3.8 | 301 | 1.59 |
| Sep 2022 | 195 | 734 | 3.8 | 333 | 1.71 |
| Sep 2021 | 196 | 872 | 4.5 | 404 | 2.06 |
| Sep 2020 | 202 | 796 | 3.9 | 332 | 1.64 |
| Sep 2019 | 212 | 886 | 4.2 | 428 | 2.02 |
| Sep 2018 | 196 | 810 | 4.1 | 353 | 1.80 |
| Sep 2017 | 196 | 809 | 4.1 | 308 | 1.57 |
| Sep 2016 | 197 | 797 | 4.1 | 336 | 1.71 |
| Sep 2015 | 189 | 766 | 4.1 | 320 | 1.69 |
| Sep 2014 | 222 | 897 | 4.0 | 389 | 1.75 |
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.) | 197 | 73.6 | 91% | 96% | – |
| 2024/25 | 200 | 72.9 | 88% | 95% | – |
| 2023/24 | 210 | 73.5 | 88% | 93% | +0.92 |
| 2022/23 | 195 | 71.4 | 90% | 96% | +0.64 |
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
- Dame Alice Owen's SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20234.0applications per place 73.6Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · HertfordshireRequires improvement20221.0applications per place
- 3.9 km · Barnet20264.0applications per place 87.1Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.4 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20233.1applications per place 51.0Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · Barnet20263.0applications per place 61.2Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · BarnetGood20224.4applications per place 61.0Attainment 8
- 4.9 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.0applications per place 35.4Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade202533.2Attainment 8
- 5.1 km · BarnetOutstanding20235.1applications per place 53.8Attainment 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
- 136554 · 919/5407
- Trust
- Dame Alice Owen's School
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,416 pupils · 1,467 on roll
- Free school meals
- 4.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2011
- Replaced
- Dame Alice Owen's School (URN 117579)
- Address
- Dugdale Hill Lane, Potters Bar, EN6 2DU
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · Hertsmere
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources