Graded inspection · Nov 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 entry736 applications · 240 places offered · 215 named it first
- 2026 3.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2025 3.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2024 3.2; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2023 3.2; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2022 3.3; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2021 3.4; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2020 3.7; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2019 3.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.2
- 2018 4.6; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2017 4.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2016 4.4; Hertfordshire median median 3.4
- 2015 4.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2014 4.7; 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 | 240 | 736 | 3.1 | 215 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2025 | 239 | 734 | 3.1 | 217 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2024 | 242 | 768 | 3.2 | 209 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2023 | 238 | 764 | 3.2 | 258 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2022 | 240 | 796 | 3.3 | 225 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2021 | 241 | 810 | 3.4 | 252 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2020 | 240 | 876 | 3.7 | 260 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2019 | 243 | 941 | 3.9 | 240 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2018 | 209 | 951 | 4.6 | 266 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2017 | 210 | 953 | 4.5 | 286 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2016 | 209 | 910 | 4.4 | 265 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2015 | 207 | 922 | 4.5 | 254 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2014 | 195 | 910 | 4.7 | 265 | 1.36 |
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.) | 232 | 60.7 | 69% | 84% | – |
| 2024/25 | 234 | 58.8 | 70% | 86% | – |
| 2023/24 | 232 | 56.6 | 61% | 79% | +0.55 |
| 2022/23 | 207 | 60.8 | 68% | 84% | +0.85 |
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 Albans Girls' SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20243.1applications per place 60.7Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20241.7applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20244.3applications per place 65.7Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20243.0applications per place 56.2Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20242.4applications per place 54.4Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20255.0applications per place 63.0Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · HertfordshireGood20232.6applications per place 42.6Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · Hertfordshire20264.8applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20233.7applications per place 55.0Attainment 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
- 137339 · 919/4083
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,450 pupils · 1,423 on roll
- Free school meals
- 11.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2011
- Replaced
- St Albans Girls' School (URN 117524)
- Address
- Sandridgebury Lane, St Albans, AL3 6DB
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · St Albans
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources