Hertswood Academy
Borehamwood, WD6 5LG · Hertfordshire · secondary school
71st of 78 secondary schools in Hertfordshire we can score, 82 in total — the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still — 2.7/10 against 701 of them, against 2.2/10 nationally. Both figures are results only, without the inspection grade. A lower figure here means a stronger comparison group, not a weaker school.
How this is worked out
| Measure | Percentile | Weight | Adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5+ English & maths 2024/25 | 27.4 · 12 | 46% | 0.58 |
| Progress 8 2023/24 | -0.19 · 36 | 38% | 1.37 |
| Attainment 8 2024/25 | 38.3 · 14 | 15% | 0.22 |
Each measure is read as a position among comparable schools, so a school in the middle of the country scores 5. Full method.
Get to know the school
How it's doing. In 2024/25, 27.4% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in English and maths. Attainment 8 was 38.3, compared to the national median of 44.6. Progress 8 was -0.19 in 2023/24, indicating pupils did slightly worse than peers nationally who started from the same place. Narrow the comparison to schools whose pupils have similar backgrounds and it does better still (2.7 out of 10 against similar schools, 2.2 out of 10 against all schools).
Beyond the classroom. Pupils can join the Culinera Restaurant Service, Reading Club, Young Enterprise, and Maths Club. Sports include basketball, football, and netball. Arts and music options cover Rockschool, dance, steel pans, and the Hertswood Choir. Both a breakfast club and an after-school club are available.
Getting in. The school has 1173 pupils in a capacity of 1861 places, leaving 688 spare places. This means the school has real spare room, so a place is likely and classes are smaller than it is built for.
Worth asking on a visit. How does the school support pupils to close the gap between their current attainment and the national median? What specific strategies are used to improve progress scores for students from similar backgrounds? How do the smaller class sizes resulting from spare capacity affect individual teacher attention?
Written by AI from this school's published results, inspection record and its own website — not by Ofsted, the school, or SchoolsGPT staff. Every figure above comes from the sources on this page. Check anything that matters with the school.
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