Graded inspection · May 2025 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 |
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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 entry807 applications · 176 places offered · 211 named it first
- 2026 4.6; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2025 3.9; Hertfordshire median median 3.0
- 2024 3.6; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 2023 3.5; Hertfordshire median median 3.1
- 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 | 176 | 807 | 4.6 | 211 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2025 | 173 | 666 | 3.9 | 185 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2024 | 164 | 585 | 3.6 | 117 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2023 | 174 | 612 | 3.5 | 175 | 1.01 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Avanti Grange Secondary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20254.6applications per place
- 1.6 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20242.7applications per place 56.8Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · HertfordshireGood202211.5applications per place 62.3Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · HertfordshireOutstanding20232.9applications per place 62.0Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · HertfordshireGraded · no overall grade20253.5applications per place 45.5Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · HertfordshireRemains Outstanding20233.3applications per place 58.8Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · Essex20262.8applications per place 42.8Attainment 8
- 7.1 km · HertfordshireGood20242.8applications per place 47.1Attainment 8
- 9.0 km · HertfordshireRequires improvement2024
- 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 149078 · 919/4037
- Trust
- Avanti Schools Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,200 pupils · 660 on roll
- Free school meals
- 10.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 September 2022
- Address
- Newland Avenue, Bishops Stortford, CM23 2BD
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire · East Hertfordshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources