Graded inspection · Oct 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 entry429 applications · 206 places offered · 262 named it first
- 2026 2.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2025 2.4; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2024 2.3; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2023 2.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2022 2.4; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2021 2.7; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2020 2.8; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2019 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.2
- 2018 3.0; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2017 3.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2016 3.8; Hertfordshire median median 3.4
- 2015 3.7; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2014 3.6; 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 | 206 | 429 | 2.1 | 262 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2025 | 204 | 486 | 2.4 | 266 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2024 | 209 | 489 | 2.3 | 258 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2023 | 205 | 520 | 2.5 | 252 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2022 | 207 | 506 | 2.4 | 252 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2021 | 207 | 554 | 2.7 | 234 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2020 | 211 | 591 | 2.8 | 273 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2019 | 208 | 612 | 2.9 | 250 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2018 | 210 | 637 | 3.0 | 247 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2017 | 165 | 574 | 3.5 | 223 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2016 | 165 | 624 | 3.8 | 213 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2015 | 165 | 602 | 3.7 | 216 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2014 | 165 | 592 | 3.6 | 199 | 1.21 |
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.) | 208 | 61.8 | 75% | 89% | – |
| 2024/25 | 208 | 57.8 | 69% | 86% | – |
| 2023/24 | 204 | 57.8 | 66% | 84% | +0.62 |
| 2022/23 | 202 | 58.8 | 66% | 84% | +0.53 |
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
- Hitchin Girls' SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.1applications per place 61.8Attainment 8
- 0.7 km · Hertfordshire20252.0applications per place 56.8Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20224.1applications per place 46.5Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · HertfordshireGood20233.0applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 3.5 km · Hertfordshire20263.0applications per place 37.5Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · HertfordshireRemains Good · improving20242.6applications per place 55.7Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · HertfordshireStandards maintained20243.0applications per place 44.9Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · HertfordshireGood20232.7applications per place 48.0Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20232.0applications per place 48.3Attainment 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
- 137288 · 919/4009
- Trust
- Hitchin Girls' School
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,400 pupils · 1,357 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 17 August 2011
- Replaced
- Hitchin Girls' School (URN 117503)
- Address
- Highbury Road, Hitchin, SG4 9RS
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · North Hertfordshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources