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30 open schools in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · see all Hertfordshire schools · grammar schools in Bishop's Stortford

Bishop's Stortford has 30 state schools: 24 primary, 5 secondary, part of Hertfordshire's wider catchment. 25 have a published Ofsted rating, and 21 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.

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Undersubscribed schools rated Good or Outstanding

These schools didn't fill on first preference in the latest admissions year, despite an Ofsted rating of Good or Outstanding — worth a look if you're chasing the same handful of famous names everyone else applies to.

Little Hallingbury Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Good · ×0.69 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Thorley Hill Primary School Good · ×0.8 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Hillmead Primary School Good · ×0.86 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Michael's Church of England Primary School Good · ×0.87 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Avanti Meadows Primary School Good · ×0.9 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Joseph's Catholic Primary School B/S Good · ×0.9 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Thorn Grove Primary School Good · ×0.93 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Elsenham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Good · ×0.97 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Summercroft Primary School Good · ×0.97 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Hertfordshire

Primary schools: 'Priority area' is explicit in the primary admission rules. (source)

Secondary schools: 'Priority area' also explicit for secondary/upper schools. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Bishop's Stortford straddles a council boundary: the scheme above is Hertfordshire's, and Essex also has schools here, applying under its own.

All Saints Church of England Primary School and Nursery, Bishop's Stortford Bishop's Stortford · Good Avanti Meadows Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Birchanger Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Bishop's Stortford Birchwood High School Bishop's Stortford · Not judged Bishop's Stortford College Bishop's Stortford Elsenham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Farnham Church of England Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Hatfield Heath Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Henham and Ugley Primary and Nursery School Bishop's Stortford · Not judged Hillmead Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Hockerill Anglo-European College Bishop's Stortford · Good Howe Green House School BISHOP'S STORTFORD Little Hallingbury Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Manor Fields Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Manuden Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Northgate Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Richard Whittington Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Roseacres Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Sheering Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Not judged Spellbrook CofE Primary School Bishop's Stortford St Joseph's Catholic Primary School B/S Bishop's Stortford · Good St Mary's Catholic School Bishop's Stortford · Not judged St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Hatfield Broad Oak Bishop's Stortford St Michael's Church of England Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Summercroft Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good The Bishop's Stortford High School Bishop's Stortford · Outstanding The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College Bishop's Stortford · Outstanding Thorley Hill Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Thorn Grove Primary School Bishop's Stortford · Good Windhill21 Bishop's Stortford · Outstanding

Key dates

Entry yearEventDate
Sept 2028 Application deadline 31 October 2027
Sept 2028 Primary application deadline 15 January 2028
Sept 2028 Offer day 1 March 2028
Sept 2028 Primary offer day 17 April 2028
Sept 2027 Application deadline 31 October 2026
Sept 2027 Primary application deadline 15 January 2027
Sept 2027 Offer day 1 March 2027
Sept 2027 Primary offer day 16 April 2027
Sept 2026 Application deadline 31 October 2025 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary application deadline 15 January 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026 Offer day 2 March 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary offer day 16 April 2026 (passed)

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