United Kingdom / Regions / North Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire
East of England, England · population ~133k · 65 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 55 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in North Hertfordshire
65 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (55 of 65 here), 97.4% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 1 school (1.5% of the LA) has been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 65 schools.
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The Knights Templar School | Secondary | 1,414 | Good· | 26/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hitchin Boys' School | Secondary | 1,357 | Outstanding· | 25/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Hitchin Girls' School | Secondary | 1,356 | Not graded | 08/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Priory School | Secondary | 1,242 | Good· | 05/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Highfield School | Secondary | 978 | Good | 17/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
King James Academy Royston | Secondary | 939 | Good | 23/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Fearnhill School | Secondary | 601 | Good | 13/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Round Diamond Primary School | Primary | 453 | Not graded | 05/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Lordship Farm Primary School | Primary | 446 | Good· | 02/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Highover Junior Mixed and Infant School | Primary | 434 | Good· | 28/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
William Ransom Primary School | Primary | 422 | Not graded | 18/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Samuel Lucas Junior Mixed and Infant School | Primary | 419 | Outstanding | 03/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Hartsfield Junior Mixed and Infant School | Primary | 410 | Not graded | 29/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Knebworth Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 404 | Good· | 11/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Icknield Walk First School | Primary | 345 | Not graded | 25/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Tannery Drift School | Primary | 325 | Good· | 04/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Codicote Church of England Primary School | Primary | 277 | Not graded | 25/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy | Primary | 263 | Not graded | 11/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Hitchin | Primary | 253 | Outstanding· | 04/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Whitehill Junior School | Primary | 241 | Good· | 08/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.