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Secondary school in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire

Leventhorpe

Cambridge Road, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, CM21 9BY

Ofsted Good · 2024 Sixth form
School website 01279836633

Ofsted

Goodas at 16 April 2024

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 16 April 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 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

49.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

47% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

72% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

48% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half 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 lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.05confidence interval -0.13 to 0.23

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C
Average points per entry
31.4

England average 32.3

A level students
168

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1463
Places
1580
How full
93% full — 1463 of 1580 places taken
Girls / boys
707 / 756
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
21%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
13%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
9%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
91%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
56%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
237

After sixth form

Went to university
57%

England 50%

In education, work or training
94%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
9%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
106

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

12% 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
52%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
117

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 011A, 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
30%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
58%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
29%

England 17%

Households with no car
16%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
36%

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
Day school
Trust
RIVERS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Malcolm White
Local authority
Hertfordshire
Ward
Sawbridgeworth
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford
URN
137156

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The Bishop's Stortford High SchoolFoundation school Outstanding 2023 60.2 2 mi
Saint Nicholas SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.9 mi
Mark Hall AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.9 3 mi
The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science CollegeAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 63.6 3.4 mi
St Mary's Catholic SchoolAcademy converter No grade 57.6 3.4 mi
Burnt Mill AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 45.2 3.5 mi
Bishop's Stortford CollegeOther independent school No grade 3.5 mi
Hockerill Anglo-European CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 61.7 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
Tanbridge House SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2024 54.2
Southend High School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 75
Richard Challoner SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 59.4
The Ashcombe SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 57.1
Westcliff High School for Boys AcademyAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 77.6
Southend High School for BoysAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 73.8
Skipton Girls' High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 69.7
St Bede's Catholic CollegeAcademy converter No grade 57.1

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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