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Best secondary schools in Herefordshire, County of

14 of 15 secondary schools ranked by Progress 8 · all Herefordshire, County of schools · primary schools

Ranked on Progress 8, 2023/24 — the most recent year each school has published. Official data, not our opinion — but the ranking is only as good as the measure, and a single number never describes a school. We hold real catchment boundaries for 8 of them.

# School Progress 8 Ofsted Places Catchment
1 Fairfield High School Hereford 0.49 Outstanding oversubscribed 1.36 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
2 St Mary's RC High School Hereford 0.1 Outstanding oversubscribed 1.29 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
3 Weobley High School Hereford -0.12 Good declining oversubscribed 1.2 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
4 The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School Hereford hidden gem -0.17 Good about even 0.88 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
5 John Kyrle High School and Sixth Form Centre Academy Ross-on-Wye -0.2 Not judged declining about even 0.93 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
6 Whitecross Hereford Hereford -0.3 Good about even 1.04 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
7 Wigmore School Leominster -0.32 Good about even 1.06 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
8 John Masefield High School Ledbury hidden gem -0.35 Good about even 0.94 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
9 Queen Elizabeth High School Bromyard hidden gem -0.46 Good about even 0.93 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
10 Lady Hawkins' School Kington -0.48 Not judged improving about even 1.0 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
11 Earl Mortimer College Leominster hidden gem -0.57 Good undersubscribed 0.77 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
12 Kingstone High School Hereford hidden gem -0.67 Good improving undersubscribed 0.74 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
13 Aylestone School Hereford -0.8 Requires improvement declining undersubscribed 0.84 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
14 The Hereford Church of England Academy Hereford -1.09 Requires improvement declining about even 0.91 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate

Also in Herefordshire, County of

1 further secondary school with no published Progress 8 for the latest year — usually too small a cohort to report, newly opened, or a special school. Listed because leaving them out would make this a misleading picture of Herefordshire, County of, not a fairer one.

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