Secondary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 117577 · LAESTAB 919/5405 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Top school 2024/25
Attainment 8: P92.6 of East of England secondaries (2024/25) · Grade 5+ English and maths: P91.3 (2024/25) · Ofsted Outstanding (2017).
Top 10% of East of England secondaries on Attainment 8 and top 25% on Grade 5+ English and maths (2024/25, cohort 30+), and Ofsted Good or better or a report card with nothing below Expected. Separate from the map plaque, which only tiers the school's East of England rank by England results (Top 1/3/5/10/25%).
Against East of England and Hertfordshire
Track: East of England's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = East of England median; H = Hertfordshire median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
East of England state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the East of England median, red = in East of England's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with maintained schools' accounts (CFR), same financial year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 4: Attainment 8 average score. Ranked among 3,280 secondaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against East of England: East of England state secondaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against East of England (10 = top 10%).
Arrows: change in East of England percentile points.
Pupils counted: Attainment 8 169 pupils (2024/25) · Grade 5+ English and maths 169 pupils (2024/25) · EBacc point score 169 pupils (2024/25) · Progress 8 168 pupils (2023/24) · A level points per entry 198 pupils (2024/25).
Progress 8: Not published for 2024/25: Progress 8 returns with 2026/27 results.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
Inspections
OutstandingGoodUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: May 2023 Remains Outstanding · Mar 2017 Outstanding · May 2013 Good · May 2008 Outstanding. Each dot opens its Ofsted report.
Inspection judgements graded Outstanding or Good, and Requires improvement or Inadequate, out of the judgements graded (the overall grade and aggregated judgements are not counted). Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (1,211 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 75.09, leadership 7, teaching assistants 13.46, support staff incl. TAs 45.16, whole workforce 120.25 (138 people), 82 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Maintained school accounts (CFR) · April 2025 to March 2026.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
Destinations
Students who finished the stage in the cohort year, followed through the next year: sustained = at least six months in education, an apprenticeship or employment
Source: DfE destination measures.
Why some figures are missing
Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).
All sources and licences (8)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, 16-19 destination measures, academic year
- Department for Education, Consistent Financial Reporting
- Department for Education, Key stage 4 destination measures, academic year
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 247 of 3,280 secondaries in England · top 8%
A-level results
#112 of 273 East of England sixth forms, state and independent, 2024/25
Independent and selective (grammar) schools choose their pupils, so high results partly reflect who gets in, not only teaching. Some independent schools don't publish results.
Against East of England
Show exam results by year
No exams 2019/20–21
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 277 | 160 |
| 2nd | 167 | 11 |
| 3rd | 64 | 1 |
Last distance offered: London only
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
Links open in a new tab. Close Knit counts the click, never what you do there.
Inspections · 2008–2023
- 2008Outstanding
- 2013Good
- 2017Outstanding
- 2023Remains Outstanding
5 strong areas
- Outcomes for pupils
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare
- 16 to 19 study programmes
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
0 weak areas
5 areas graded
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 10.6%Boys 89.4%
all pupils, incl. sixth form
105.6% full · 1,211 places · 381 in sixth form
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 68.1
- Leadership 7
- Teaching assistants 13.5
- Other support 31.7
Teachers 75.1 FTE · Whole workforce 120.3 · 138 people
Financials · 2025/26
- +£825,587revenue reserve
- −£201,181in-year balance
Grants £6,947 · self-generated £1,027 · premises £398 per pupil
Destinations · 2023/24 leavers
After Year 11
168 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional
After sixth form (16–18)
192 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional