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 | Good |
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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 entry444 applications · 146 places offered · 129 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.0; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2025 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2024 2.7; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2023 3.0; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2022 2.8; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2021 2.8; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2020 3.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2019 3.2; Hertfordshire median median 3.2
- 2018 2.7; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2017 3.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2016 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.4
- 2015 3.0; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2014 3.4; 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 | 146 | 444 | 3.0 | 129 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2025 | 146 | 417 | 2.9 | 107 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2024 | 148 | 406 | 2.7 | 110 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2023 | 144 | 438 | 3.0 | 117 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2022 | 158 | 434 | 2.8 | 124 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2021 | 159 | 443 | 2.8 | 127 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2020 | 159 | 486 | 3.1 | 128 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2019 | 157 | 494 | 3.2 | 150 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2018 | 156 | 428 | 2.7 | 113 | 0.72 |
| Sep 2017 | 159 | 488 | 3.1 | 181 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2016 | 159 | 467 | 2.9 | 169 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2015 | 147 | 440 | 3.0 | 158 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2014 | 149 | 513 | 3.4 | 155 | 1.04 |
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.) | 159 | 56.2 | 62% | 79% | – |
| 2024/25 | 156 | 58.3 | 59% | 83% | – |
| 2023/24 | 159 | 59.4 | 67% | 86% | +0.71 |
| 2022/23 | 156 | 60.0 | 68% | 85% | +0.78 |
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
- Loreto CollegeThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20243.0applications per place 56.2Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20242.4applications per place 54.4Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20243.1applications per place 60.7Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Hertfordshire20264.8applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · HertfordshireGood20232.6applications per place 42.6Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20255.0applications per place 63.0Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20244.3applications per place 65.7Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · HertfordshireRemains Good20241.7applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 2.9 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
- 138106 · 919/4620
- Trust
- Loreto College (ST Albans)
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 927 pupils · 952 on roll
- Free school meals
- 14.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 May 2012
- Replaced
- Loreto College (URN 117558)
- Address
- Hatfield Road, St Albans, AL1 3RQ
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · St Albans
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources