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Secondary school in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire

The Broxbourne School

Badgers Walk, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, EN10 7FU

Ofsted Outstanding · 2024 Sixth form Full
School website 01992411060

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 25 June 2024

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 25 June 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

55.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

67% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

82% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

64% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top quarter 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

0.10confidence interval -0.10 to 0.30

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
B
Average points per entry
38.7

England average 32.3

A level students
109

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1442
Places
1260
How full
Full — 1442 pupils against 1260 places
Girls / boys
729 / 713
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
13%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
14%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
15%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
94%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
62%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
213

After sixth form

Went to university
67%

England 50%

In education, work or training
95%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
108

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

29% 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
73%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
120

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 Broxbourne 004D, 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
17%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
83%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
13%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
39%

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
THE BROXBOURNE SCHOOL
Headteacher
Headteacher: Peter Clift
Local authority
Hertfordshire
Ward
Broxbourne and Hoddesdon South
Constituency
Broxbourne
URN
136396

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Robert Barclay AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 44.2 1 mi
Haileybury TurnfordAcademy sponsor led No grade 43.3 2 mi
The John Warner SchoolAcademy converter Inadequate 2022 40.8 2.5 mi
Haileybury CollegeOther independent school No grade 2.7 mi
Goffs AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 49.1 2.8 mi
Goffs - Churchgate AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 42.6 2.9 mi
St Mary's Church of England High School (VA)Academy converter Good 2023 45 3.4 mi
King Harold Business & Enterprise AcademyAcademy converter No grade 36.5 3.9 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
The Billericay SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 50
Stanchester AcademyAcademy converter No grade 43.7
Chenderit SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 50
The Gilberd SchoolAcademy converter No grade 53.4
Madeley High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.5
Trinity Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 56.3
Duke of York's Royal Military SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 55
ArdenAcademy converter Good 2022 59.6

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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