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Secondary school in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire

Hockerill Anglo-European College

Dunmow Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5HX

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form Full
School website 01279658451

Ofsted

Goodas at 14 June 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 14 June 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 4 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

61.7 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

73% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

86% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

6.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

93% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.38confidence interval 0.10 to 0.66

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
903
Places
728
How full
Full — 903 pupils against 728 places
Girls / boys
425 / 478
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
15%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
5%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
9%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
7%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
99%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
98%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
82%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
131

After sixth form

Went to university
74%

England 50%

In education, work or training
84%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
122

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

69% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
86%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
70

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for East Hertfordshire 005D, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
47%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
62%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
5%

England 17%

Households with no car
21%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
31%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Boarding school
Trust
HOCKERILL ANGLO-EUROPEAN COLLEGE LTD.
Headteacher
Principal: Alasdair Mackenzie
Local authority
Hertfordshire
Ward
Bishop's Stortford All Saints
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford
URN
136482

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science CollegeAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 63.6 0.2 mi
Birchwood High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 46.1 0.5 mi
St Mary's Catholic SchoolAcademy converter No grade 57.6 0.7 mi
Bishop's Stortford CollegeOther independent school No grade 1 mi
Avanti Grange Secondary SchoolFree schools No grade 1.3 mi
The Bishop's Stortford High SchoolFoundation school Outstanding 2023 60.2 1.7 mi
Forest Hall SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 40.6 2.2 mi
LeventhorpeAcademy converter Good 2024 49.6 3.6 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Chailey SchoolCommunity school No grade 49.3
Holcombe Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 62.4
Highsted Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 61.1
Wirral Grammar School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 69.3
Lymm High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 59.7
All Hallows Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2023 55.6
The Kings of Wessex AcademyAcademy converter No grade 48.7
Clevedon SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 51.4

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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