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Secondary school in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire

Yavneh College

Hillside Avenue, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1HL

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form Jewish Full
School website 02087365580

Ofsted

Goodas at 22 November 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 22 November 2023.

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

61.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

75% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

90% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

27% 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

0.97confidence interval 0.74 to 1.19

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

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B+
Average points per entry
43.9

England average 32.3

A level students
67

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1085
Places
1035
How full
Full — 1085 pupils against 1035 places
Girls / boys
504 / 581
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
14%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
6%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
99%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
95%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
80%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
152

After sixth form

Went to university
65%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
130

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

55% 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
83%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
119

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 Hertsmere 011C, 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
64%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
13%

England 17%

Households with no car
14%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
27%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Jewish
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
YAVNEH COLLEGE ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Executive Headteacher: Spencer Lewis
Local authority
Hertfordshire
Ward
Borehamwood Hillside
Constituency
Hertsmere
URN
136922

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Elstree Screen Arts AcademyUniversity technical college No grade 39.1 0.5 mi
Hertswood AcademyAcademy converter No grade 38.3 0.9 mi
Mill Hill County High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 61.2 1.9 mi
Haberdashers' Boys' SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.9 mi
Haberdashers' Girls' SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.9 mi
London AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 51.7 2.3 mi
Queen Elizabeth's School, BarnetAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 85.6 2.4 mi
Aldenham SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.6 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
The Bishop's Stortford High SchoolFoundation school Outstanding 2023 60.2
The Royal Grammar School, High WycombeAcademy converter No grade 73.9
The Crypt SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 72.7
The Market Bosworth SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 59.5
Parkstone Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 68.5
Reading SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 83
Wilson's SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 86.9
Sir Thomas Rich's SchoolAcademy converter No grade 77.2

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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