Graded inspection · Nov 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 entry516 applications · 178 places offered · 213 named it first
- 2026 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2025 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2024 2.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2023 2.7; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2022 3.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2021 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2020 2.7; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2019 3.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.2
- 2018 3.1; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2017 2.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2016 3.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.4
- 2015 3.2; Hertfordshire median median 3.3
- 2014 2.8; Hertfordshire median median 3.4; as the previous school
- This school
- Hertfordshire median
Dashed bars: as The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College (URN 117592), the previous school.
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 | 178 | 516 | 2.9 | 213 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2025 | 186 | 534 | 2.9 | 231 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2024 | 185 | 467 | 2.5 | 190 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2023 | 185 | 502 | 2.7 | 202 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2022 | 187 | 571 | 3.1 | 194 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2021 | 191 | 551 | 2.9 | 217 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2020 | 180 | 483 | 2.7 | 181 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2019 | 180 | 557 | 3.1 | 229 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2018 | 179 | 552 | 3.1 | 222 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2017 | 180 | 523 | 2.9 | 217 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2016 | 160 | 553 | 3.5 | 256 | 1.60 |
| Sep 2015 | 159 | 504 | 3.2 | 199 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2014 * | 180 | 502 | 2.8 | 190 | 1.06 |
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.) | 189 | 62.0 | 70% | 89% | – |
| 2024/25 | 185 | 63.6 | 76% | 94% | – |
| 2023/24 | 182 | 63.3 | 76% | 89% | +0.65 |
| 2022/23 | 183 | 61.7 | 73% | 93% | +0.60 |
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
- The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science CollegeThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20232.9applications per place 62.0Attainment 8
- 0.4 km · HertfordshireGood202211.5applications per place 62.3Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20253.5applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20242.7applications per place 56.8Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20254.6applications per place
- 2.3 km · HertfordshireRemains Outstanding20233.3applications per place 58.8Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · Essex20262.8applications per place 42.8Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · HertfordshireGood20242.8applications per place 47.1Attainment 8
- 10.2 km · EssexGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 37.8Attainment 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
- 140786 · 919/5420
- Trust
- Herts & Essex Multi Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,360 pupils · 1,508 on roll
- Free school meals
- 6.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2014
- Replaced
- The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College (URN 117592)
- Address
- Warwick Road, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 5NJ
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · East Hertfordshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources