St Albans Girls' School

Academy converter·Secondary school St Albans, Hertfordshire·AL3 6DB
Composite score
73.5
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#283
National rank
#32
In East of England
#16
In Hertfordshire
Top 9%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
58.8
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
70%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
86%
% EBacc grade 5+
50%
EBacc average points score
5.55

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
82%
215 first choices, 240 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
736
any preference, for 240 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9420221.0820230.8620240.9120250.902026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Albans Girls' School yet. Hertfordshire does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,428
Gender
Girls
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
11.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
21.9%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
0.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.1%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
20.0%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,509
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
98%
207 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
97%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About St Albans Girls' School

St Albans Girls' School is a girls' secondary school in St Albans, Hertfordshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 1,428 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 58.8 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 2.2 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 9% of secondary schools in England.

70% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 86% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 82% of the families who made St Albans Girls' School their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 98% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.1%. There are about 16.4 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 12% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St Albans Girls' School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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