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 entry1,053 applications · 231 places offered · 295 named it first
- 2026 4.6; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2025 4.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2024 5.0; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2023 4.8; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2022 4.3; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2021 5.3; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2020 4.4; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2019 4.4; Hertfordshire median median 3.2
- 2018 4.7; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2017 4.6; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2016 4.3; Hertfordshire median median 3.4
- 2015 4.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2014 4.4; 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 | 231 | 1,053 | 4.6 | 295 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2025 | 232 | 1,144 | 4.9 | 285 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2024 | 226 | 1,122 | 5.0 | 291 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2023 | 233 | 1,108 | 4.8 | 290 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2022 | 230 | 996 | 4.3 | 289 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2021 | 232 | 1,226 | 5.3 | 314 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2020 | 236 | 1,033 | 4.4 | 294 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2019 | 241 | 1,069 | 4.4 | 306 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2018 | 234 | 1,100 | 4.7 | 343 | 1.47 |
| Sep 2017 | 238 | 1,090 | 4.6 | 358 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2016 | 233 | 990 | 4.3 | 271 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2015 | 206 | 918 | 4.5 | 268 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2014 | 206 | 912 | 4.4 | 240 | 1.17 |
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.) | 239 | 64.0 | 82% | 91% | – |
| 2024/25 | 236 | 65.1 | 84% | 97% | – |
| 2023/24 | 240 | 63.8 | 82% | 93% | +0.74 |
| 2022/23 | 238 | 65.6 | 84% | 93% | +0.74 |
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
- St Clement Danes SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20244.6applications per place 64.0Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20242.7applications per place 44.7Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · BuckinghamshireOutstanding20233.7applications per place 76.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 4.3 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20233.1applications per place 50.6Attainment 8
- 4.6 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20236.4applications per place 63.7Attainment 8
- 5.5 km · Buckinghamshire20253.8applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · Hertfordshire20264.7applications per place 51.6Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · BuckinghamshireStandards maintained20243.6applications per place 76.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 6.8 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20243.3applications per place 46.9Attainment 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
- 136901 · 919/5421
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,590 pupils · 1,585 on roll
- Free school meals
- 5.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 July 2011
- Replaced
- St Clement Danes School (URN 117593)
- Address
- Chenies Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, WD3 6EW
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · Three Rivers
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources