Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School

Academy converter·Secondary school Hatfield, Hertfordshire·AL10 8NL
Composite score
64.9
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#708
National rank
#72
In East of England
#30
In Hertfordshire
Top 22%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
51.9
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
55%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
74%
% EBacc grade 5+
34%
EBacc average points score
4.70

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
62%
205 first choices, 150 places
First choices per place
1.37
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
452
any preference, for 150 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.13
00.511.52
1 per place
1.3320221.1820231.4820241.5020251.372026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Bishop's Hatfield 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
942
Gender
Girls
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.8%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
23.7%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
8.5%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.1%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
17.7%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,401
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%
144 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
97%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School at a glance

Located in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School is a girls' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 942 pupils aged 11 to 18. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 51.9 — above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 4.8 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 22% of secondary schools nationally.

55% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. 74% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School is oversubscribed: about 6 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 205 first choices for 150 places. 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 7.5%. There are about 17.5 pupils per teacher. Bishop's Hatfield 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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