United Kingdom / Regions / St Albans
St Albans
East of England, England · population ~149k · 69 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 53 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in St Albans
69 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 (53 of 69 here), 100% 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.
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 69 schools.
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Sandringham School | Secondary | 1,817 | Outstanding | 07/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Beaumont School | Secondary | 1,651 | Not graded | 13/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Samuel Ryder Academy | Secondary | 1,577 | Good | 29/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Roundwood Park School | Secondary | 1,437 | Outstanding | 28/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Albans Girls' School | Secondary | 1,428 | Not graded | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St George's School | Secondary | 1,362 | Not graded | 11/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Sir John Lawes School | Secondary | 1,356 | Outstanding | 28/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Marlborough Science Academy | Secondary | 1,335 | Good | 29/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School | Secondary | 1,097 | Outstanding | 14/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Katherine Warington School | Secondary | 1,017 | Good | 28/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Verulam School | Secondary | 984 | Good· | 22/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Loreto College | Secondary | 930 | Not graded | 15/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Townsend Church of England School | Secondary | 756 | Good· | 24/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant School | Primary | 480 | Not graded | 11/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Wood End School | Primary | 460 | Outstanding | 14/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Prae Wood Primary School | Primary | 448 | Not graded | 06/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & Nursery | Primary | 432 | Good | 07/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
High Beeches Primary School | Primary | 418 | Outstanding· | 08/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Killigrew Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 409 | Good· | 18/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Redbourn Primary School | Primary | 394 | Not graded | 25/03/2025 | 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.