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Gracewood Academy

  • Secondary
  • Academy converter
  • Ages 11 to 18

URN 152099 · Hertfordshire · FUTURE ACADEMIES

In Hertfordshire

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

2 November 2022

Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement

Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Sixth form provision
Good
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1

Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Suspensions and permanent exclusions

Against Hertfordshire and England, secondary schools.

Suspensions per 100 pupils

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Hertfordshire
13.41
England
21.24

Suspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. One pupil can be suspended more than once. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.

Permanent exclusions per 100 pupils

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Hertfordshire
0.12
England
0.23

Permanent exclusions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.

Key stage 4 results

Against Hertfordshire and England, secondary schools.

Attainment 8

2025/26 (provisional)

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Hertfordshire
51.4
England
47.4

The average of pupils' points across eight GCSE-level qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.

English and maths: grade 4 or above

2025/26 (provisional)

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Hertfordshire
73%
England
66%

Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 4 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.

English and maths: grade 5 or above

2025/26 (provisional)

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Hertfordshire
55%
England
48%

Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

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About the school

Pupils on roll
420
Capacity
1,082
Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Age range
11 to 18
Sixth form
Has a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Trust
FUTURE ACADEMIES
Opened
1 December 2025
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency
Hertsmere
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 6 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: Church Road, Rothwell, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 1EZ

Website: www.gracewood.futureacademies.org/

Telephone: 01707655512

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Sources and corrections

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Gracewood Academy, URN 152099. https://joshuamangas.com/intel/school/152099/. Data release 20 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.