The Bishop's Stortford High School

Ofsted

●Outstanding (2023) — Ungraded inspection — “School remains Outstanding” (previous grade confirmed, not re-graded)

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 25 May 2023, published 6 July 2023. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Oversubscribed — 1.61 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• –St Mary's Catholic School 2.3 km · No overall grade (2024)
• ●The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College 2.3 km · Outstanding (2023) · previous system
• ▲Hockerill Anglo-European College 2.7 km · Good (2022) · previous system
• ▲Leventhorpe 3.2 km · Good (2024) · previous system
• –Birchwood High School 3.4 km · No overall grade (2025)
• –Avanti Grange Secondary School 3.9 km · No overall grade (2025)

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.