Which school had the best GCSE results in Hertfordshire in 2024?

On 2024 Attainment 8, Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet topped the table in Hertfordshire with 86.6, against an England average of 45.9. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so compare a school's grade 5+ pass rate and, where published, its Progress 8 before reading the rank as a verdict.

Where are the latest Hertfordshire GCSE results?

This page is the 2024 archive (the 2023/24 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Hertfordshire are on the main Hertfordshire GCSE results page, which updates when the DfE releases the next year's performance tables: provisional figures in the autumn, revised figures early in the new year.

What is Attainment 8?

Attainment 8 is the DfE's headline GCSE measure: the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. A score of 50 means pupils averaged roughly a grade 5 across those subjects. Progress 8 measures the same pupils against others nationally with the same primary-school starting point.

Why does a school in Hertfordshire show no 2024 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2024 when it had no Year 11 cohort in that year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published that year's results under its previous identity, or when it is independent and its pupils sat IGCSE, Pre-U or IB qualifications that the DfE tables do not count. Independent schools with a published figure are listed separately and unranked for that reason.

Hertfordshire GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

81 state secondary schools in Hertfordshire ranked on their 2024 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2023/24 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 7 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 27 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2024 archive of the table. See the latest Hertfordshire GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

County 88 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Hertfordshire ranked on Attainment 8

81 of 88 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in Hertfordshire ranked on Attainment 8, 2024 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	45.9	0.00	46%	65%	4.07	–
1	Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet Barnet · Academy converter	86.6	+1.22 (1.00 to 1.43)	100%	100%	8.67	188
2	Dame Alice Owen's School Potters Bar · Academy converter	73.5	+0.92 (0.72 to 1.13)	88%	93%	7.04	210
3 , up 5 places since 2023	Parmiter's School Watford · Academy converter	68.3	+0.74 (0.54 to 0.94)	83%	94%	6.44	211
4	Watford Grammar School for Girls Watford · Academy converter	66.9	+0.74 (0.54 to 0.95)	81%	92%	6.26	209
5 , down 2 places since 2023	Watford Grammar School for Boys Watford · Academy converter	66.5	+0.72 (0.53 to 0.91)	85%	92%	6.54	222
6 , up 6 places since 2023	Sandringham School St Albans · Academy converter	64.6	+1.06 (0.88 to 1.25)	82%	92%	5.99	240
7	St George's School Harpenden · Academy converter	64.2	+0.65 (0.43 to 0.86)	81%	93%	5.45	196
8 , down 3 places since 2023	St Clement Danes School Rickmansworth · Academy converter	63.8	+0.74 (0.55 to 0.93)	82%	93%	5.96	240
9	The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College Bishop's Stortford · Academy converter	63.3	+0.65 (0.43 to 0.86)	76%	89%	5.84	182
10 , up 6 places since 2023	Roundwood Park School Harpenden · Academy converter	62.5	+0.79 (0.59 to 0.99)	79%	92%	5.55	196
11 , up 2 places since 2023	Sir John Lawes School Harpenden · Academy converter	62.3	+0.79 (0.58 to 0.99)	76%	89%	5.60	199
12 , up 8 places since 2023	Yavneh College Borehamwood · Academy converter	61.7	+0.97 (0.74 to 1.19)	77%	90%	5.33	175
13 , up 5 places since 2023	JCoSS New Barnet · Voluntary aided school	61.1	+0.97 (0.76 to 1.18)	80%	90%	4.98	182
14 , down 8 places since 2023	Hockerill Anglo-European College Bishop's Stortford · Academy converter	60.7	+0.38 (0.10 to 0.66)	70%	89%	6.06	133
15 , up 11 places since 2023	Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School Barnet · Academy converter	59.6	+0.74 (0.53 to 0.96)	71%	87%	5.55	201
16 , down 1 place since 2023	Loreto College St Albans · Academy converter	59.4	+0.71 (0.49 to 0.94)	67%	86%	5.59	159
17 , down 6 places since 2023	Beaumont School St Albans · Academy converter	59.0	+0.89 (0.70 to 1.08)	69%	86%	5.66	209
18 , up 3 places since 2023	Presdales School Ware · Academy converter	58.8	+0.61 (0.39 to 0.83)	71%	93%	5.54	175
19 , down 9 places since 2023	Rickmansworth School Rickmansworth · Academy converter	58.0	+0.30 (0.11 to 0.49)	73%	89%	5.45	222
20 , down 2 places since 2023	Hitchin Girls' School Hitchin · Academy converter	57.8	+0.62 (0.42 to 0.82)	66%	84%	4.97	204
21 , up 1 place since 2023	The Saint John Henry Newman Catholic School Stevenage · Academy converter	56.8	+0.72 (0.54 to 0.90)	64%	84%	5.04	241
22 , up 2 places since 2023	Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School Hatfield · Academy converter	56.7	+0.38 (0.13 to 0.62)	64%	81%	5.13	149
23 , down 9 places since 2023	St Albans Girls' School St Albans · Academy converter	56.6	+0.55 (0.37 to 0.74)	61%	79%	5.23	232
24 , down 1 place since 2023	Hitchin Boys' School Hitchin · Academy converter	56.3	+0.57 (0.38 to 0.77)	65%	89%	5.52	208
25 , down 8 places since 2023	The Bishop's Stortford High School Bishop's Stortford · Foundation school	56.1	+0.23 (0.01 to 0.45)	69%	89%	5.40	168
26 , up 12 places since 2023	The Broxbourne School Broxbourne · Academy converter	54.7	+0.10 (-0.10 to 0.30)	70%	82%	5.11	205
27 , up 5 places since 2023	St Mary's Catholic School Bishop's Stortford · Academy converter	54.6	+0.43 (0.22 to 0.63)	59%	81%	4.96	186
28 , up 2 places since 2023	Southgate School Barnet · Academy converter	54.5	+0.37 (0.18 to 0.55)	66%	83%	4.82	234
29 , up 6 places since 2023	Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School St Albans · Academy converter	54.4	+0.75 (0.53 to 0.96)	59%	82%	5.07	174
30	Katherine Warington School Harpenden · Free schools	54.0	+0.48 (0.26 to 0.69)	58%	75%	4.63	175
31= , up 9 places since 2023	Ashlyns School Berkhamsted · Foundation school	53.8	+0.36 (0.18 to 0.54)	62%	79%	4.68	242
31= , down 3 places since 2023	Richard Hale School Hertford · Academy converter	53.8	+0.31 (0.10 to 0.53)	66%	83%	5.07	175
33 , up 14 places since 2023	Freman College Buntingford · Academy converter	53.6	+0.58 (0.40 to 0.77)	59%	80%	4.63	230
34 , down 9 places since 2023	Queens' School Bushey · Academy converter	53.5	+0.20 (0.02 to 0.37)	63%	81%	4.89	266
35= , down 1 place since 2023	Chancellor's School Hatfield · Academy converter	52.9	+0.35 (0.15 to 0.54)	57%	72%	4.93	205
35= , up 16 places since 2023	Simon Balle All-Through School Hertford · Academy converter	52.9	+0.45 (0.24 to 0.67)	60%	82%	4.73	176
37 , down 8 places since 2023	East Barnet School Barnet · Academy converter	52.0	+0.16 (-0.04 to 0.36)	59%	75%	4.49	208
38= , down 3 places since 2023	Saint Joan of Arc Catholic School Rickmansworth · Academy converter	51.9	+0.34 (0.15 to 0.53)	62%	82%	4.56	212
38= , up 3 places since 2023	The Chauncy School Ware · Academy converter	51.9	+0.53 (0.33 to 0.72)	57%	76%	4.45	216
40 , down 14 places since 2023	Verulam School St Albans · Academy converter	51.8	+0.40 (0.17 to 0.63)	57%	77%	4.64	181
41 , down 3 places since 2023	Tring School Tring · Academy converter	51.3	+0.24 (0.05 to 0.42)	58%	77%	4.27	241
42= , down 12 places since 2023	Saint Michael's Catholic High School Watford · Academy converter	51.2	+0.13 (-0.09 to 0.34)	51%	76%	4.50	174
42= , up 6 places since 2023	The Nobel School Stevenage · Foundation school	51.2	+0.38 (0.19 to 0.56)	51%	75%	4.19	229
44	John F Kennedy Catholic School Hemel Hempstead · Academy converter	50.9	+0.15 (-0.05 to 0.36)	56%	79%	4.21	178
45= , down 12 places since 2023	Monk's Walk School Welwyn Garden City · Academy converter	50.4	+0.24 (0.05 to 0.43)	53%	74%	4.38	224
45= , down 4 places since 2023	Samuel Ryder Academy St Albans · Academy sponsor led	50.4	+0.35 (0.15 to 0.55)	54%	73%	4.32	192
47 , down 12 places since 2023	Croxley Danes School Rickmansworth · Free schools	49.7	+0.10 (-0.12 to 0.31)	47%	72%	4.58	173
48 , down 7 places since 2023	Goffs Academy Waltham Cross · Academy converter	49.5	+0.22 (0.03 to 0.40)	52%	71%	4.55	238
49 , down 5 places since 2023	Leventhorpe Sawbridgeworth · Academy converter	48.9	+0.05 (-0.13 to 0.23)	47%	74%	4.32	230
50 , up 5 places since 2023	Barclay Academy Stevenage · Academy sponsor led	48.4	+0.17 (-0.09 to 0.43)	54%	76%	4.56	123
51 , down 2 places since 2023	Townsend Church of England School St Albans · Voluntary aided school	48.2	+0.14 (-0.10 to 0.39)	51%	68%	4.03	140
52 , up 10 places since 2023	Birchwood High School Bishop's Stortford · Academy converter	48.1	-0.08 (-0.27 to 0.11)	49%	69%	4.25	231
53	The Hemel Hempstead School Hemel Hempstead · Academy converter	47.8	-0.14 (-0.33 to 0.06)	46%	72%	4.22	212
54 , down 4 places since 2023	Kings Langley School Kings Langley · Academy converter	47.6	+0.07 (-0.14 to 0.27)	47%	70%	4.23	186
55 , down 1 place since 2023	The Reach Free School Rickmansworth · Free schools	46.6	-0.02 (-0.29 to 0.25)	44%	64%	4.33	117
56= , down 10 places since 2023	Stanborough School Welwyn Garden City · Academy converter	46.5	+0.18 (-0.04 to 0.39)	48%	73%	4.43	188
56= , down 4 places since 2023	The Priory School Hitchin · Foundation school	46.5	-0.05 (-0.25 to 0.15)	44%	68%	4.11	193
58 , down 1 place since 2023	The Thomas Alleyne Academy Stevenage · Academy sponsor led	46.1	+0.04 (-0.18 to 0.26)	50%	67%	3.94	172
59 , down 3 places since 2023	Goffs - Churchgate Academy Waltham Cross · Academy converter	45.6	+0.37 (0.10 to 0.64)	41%	66%	4.03	110
60 , down 7 places since 2023	The Knights Templar School Baldock · Academy converter	44.9	-0.27 (-0.47 to -0.08)	48%	65%	4.14	204
61 , up 7 places since 2023	St Mary's Church of England High School (VA) Waltham Cross · Academy converter	44.3	-0.07 (-0.26 to 0.12)	38%	62%	3.96	216
62 , down 4 places since 2023	The Marlborough Science Academy St Albans · Academy converter	44.1	-0.10 (-0.30 to 0.10)	40%	65%	3.98	205
63= , up 1 place since 2023	King James Academy Royston Royston · Academy converter	42.7	+0.19 (-0.11 to 0.48)	45%	57%	3.80	89
63=	Robert Barclay Academy Hoddesdon · Academy sponsor led	42.7	+0.11 (-0.15 to 0.37)	38%	59%	3.47	112
65= , down 7 places since 2023	Haileybury Turnford Waltham Cross · Academy sponsor led	42.5	-0.05 (-0.29 to 0.20)	36%	55%	3.54	141
65= , down 7 places since 2023	Longdean School Hemel Hempstead · Academy converter	42.5	-0.29 (-0.47 to -0.11)	34%	63%	3.76	242
67 , down 23 places since 2023	Bushey Meads School Bushey · Academy converter	42.1	-0.45 (-0.66 to -0.24)	41%	64%	3.22	184
68 , up 3 places since 2023	Laureate Academy Hemel Hempstead · Academy sponsor led	41.7	-0.22 (-0.46 to 0.02)	35%	57%	3.96	144
69	The Sele School Hertford · Academy converter	41.3	-0.26 (-0.56 to 0.04)	33%	55%	3.46	95
70 , down 5 places since 2023	Fearnhill School Letchworth · Foundation school	41.2	-0.14 (-0.41 to 0.13)	34%	54%	3.78	106
71 , down 10 places since 2023	Westfield Academy Watford · Academy converter	40.4	-0.03 (-0.23 to 0.17)	25%	53%	3.83	209
72= , down 6 places since 2023	Barnwell School Stevenage · Foundation school	39.6	-0.32 (-0.52 to -0.12)	33%	58%	3.26	217
72= , down 5 places since 2023	Marriotts School Stevenage · Community school	39.6	-0.37 (-0.56 to -0.18)	32%	53%	3.46	221
74 , down 1 place since 2023	Future Academies Watford Watford · Academy sponsor led	39.4	-0.16 (-0.36 to 0.04)	39%	58%	3.55	197
75 , down 5 places since 2023	Hertswood Academy Borehamwood · Academy converter	38.9	-0.19 (-0.39 to 0.02)	28%	53%	3.49	201
76 , down 4 places since 2023	Ridgeway Academy Welwyn Garden City · Academy sponsor led	37.9	-0.47 (-0.69 to -0.26)	27%	51%	3.10	168
77 , down 2 places since 2023	The Grange Academy Bushey · Academy sponsor led	37.6	-0.29 (-0.52 to -0.05)	33%	54%	3.38	169
78 , down 1 place since 2023	The Astley Cooper School Hemel Hempstead · Foundation school	37.2	-0.60 (-0.82 to -0.38)	33%	49%	3.15	168
79= , down 5 places since 2023	Elstree Screen Arts Academy Borehamwood · University technical college	36.6	-0.79 (-1.07 to -0.51)	32%	55%	2.67	105
79= , down 3 places since 2023	Onslow St Audrey's School Hatfield · Academy converter	36.6	-0.36 (-0.62 to -0.10)	27%	49%	3.18	136
81 , down 3 places since 2023	The Adeyfield Academy Hemel Hempstead · Academy sponsor led	29.2	-0.97 (-1.25 to -0.68)	17%	32%	2.57	100
–	Avanti Grange Secondary School Bishop's Stortford · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Edwinstree Church of England Middle School Buntingford · Voluntary controlled school · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Gracewood Academy Potters Bar · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Ralph Sadleir School Ware · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	TLC Live Online School Bishop's Stortford · Online provider · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	The Highfield School Letchworth Garden City · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	The John Warner School Hoddesdon · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2024	–	–	–	–	–	–

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Under each rank: the change since the 2023 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2023 result.

Independent schools in Hertfordshire with published 2024 GCSE results

Listed as published, not ranked. The DfE tables count only reformed GCSEs, so a school whose pupils sit IGCSE, Pre-U or the IB reports a lower figure than its results merit, or none at all. Compare independent schools on their own published examination results and inspection reports.

School	Attainment 8 (as published)	Grade 5+ English & maths	Pupils
Abbot's Hill School Hemel Hempstead · Other independent school	34.1	38%	106
Aldenham School Elstree · Other independent school	42.1	0%	119
Berkhamsted School Berkhamsted · Other independent school	16.3	0%	205
Bishop's Stortford College Bishop's Stortford · Other independent school	22.4	0%	119
Egerton-Rothesay School Berkhamsted · Other independent school	12.5	9%	22
Haberdashers' Boys' School Other independent school	40.6	0%	163
Haberdashers' Girls' School Borehamwood · Other independent school	40.4	0%	138
Haileybury College Hertford · Other independent school	14.0	0%	160
Immanuel College Bushey · Other independent school	18.7	0%	85
Merchant Taylors' School Northwood · Other independent school	42.7	0%	163
Mount House School Barnet · Other independent school	19.0	0%	56
Queenswood School Hatfield · Other independent school	50.2	0%	83
Royal Masonic School for Girls Rickmansworth · Other independent school	65.3	77%	113
Sherrardswood School Welwyn · Other independent school	49.2	48%	54
St Albans High School for Girls Other independent school	49.2	0%	129
St Albans Independent College St Albans · Other independent school	26.5	6%	17
St Albans School St Albans · Other independent school	11.4	0%	133
Stanborough Secondary School Watford · Other independent school	50.9	71%	17
St Christopher School Letchworth Garden City · Other independent school	60.3	73%	80
St Columba's College St Albans · Other independent school	34.2	0%	98
St Edmund's College Ware · Other independent school	33.0	0%	120
St Francis College Letchworth Garden City · Other independent school	53.4	62%	47
St John's Preparatory and Senior School Potters Bar · Other independent school	70.1	95%	40
St Margaret's School Bushey · Other independent school	55.6	63%	67
The King's School Harpenden · Other independent school	60.5	77%	22
The Purcell School Other independent school	40.2	46%	33
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts Tring · Other independent school	44.8	0%	45

How to read this table

Attainment 8 is the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight GCSE subjects: English and maths (double-weighted), three EBacc subjects (sciences, computing, history, geography, languages) and three further approved qualifications. The DfE publishes it for every state school; the England average for 2024 was 45.9.

Grade 5+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching a "strong pass" in both; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". EBacc APS is the average point score across the English Baccalaureate subjects, including pupils who did not enter them.

Progress 8 measures how much progress pupils made from the end of primary school to their GCSEs against pupils nationally with the same starting point; it is the like-for-like measure, and the range in brackets is its confidence interval.

Ranks are shared where scores tie. Schools are ranked here on published results alone; our composite score, which also weighs Ofsted inspection, progress and attendance, orders the same schools on the best secondary schools page.

This is the 2024 archive of the table: each school's 2024 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2024 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Hertfordshire GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Hertfordshire on our composite score

Hertfordshire GCSE results 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Hertfordshire ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Hertfordshire with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire GCSE results: common questions