Free schools · Secondary
Rickmansworth · WD3 8AB · Hertfordshire
Ages 11–18
Status: Open
2.1 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 136901
St Clement Danes School
Academy converter · Rickmansworth · WD3 6EW
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,585
Local authority
Hertfordshire
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, 1,585 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 5.4%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 136901
Location
- Address
- Chenies Road, Chorleywood
- Postcode
- WD3 6EW
- Town
- Rickmansworth
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- District
- Three Rivers
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,585
- Boys / girls
- 840 / 745
- School capacity
- 1,590
- Capacity fill
- 1,585 / 1,590 (100%)
- Free school meals
- 5.4%
- FSM pupils
- 65
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: DANES EDUCATIONAL TRUST
- Academy trust
- DANES EDUCATIONAL TRUST
- Sponsor
- St Clement Danes School
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Toby Sutherland
- Telephone
- 01923284169
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Outstanding
Inspection date
2024-03-26
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 63.8
- Progress 8
- 0.7
- English & maths grade 5+
- 82%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 93%
- EBacc entry
- 64%
- EBacc APS
- 6.0