Academy sponsor led · Secondary
Hemel Hempstead · HP1 3DW · Hertfordshire
Ages 11–18
Status: Open
0.6 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 149500
The Hemel Hempstead School
Academy converter · Hemel Hempstead · HP1 1TX
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,287
Local authority
Hertfordshire
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- 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 Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, 1,287 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 19%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 149500
Location
- Address
- Heath Lane, The Hemel Hempstead School, Heath Lane
- Postcode
- HP1 1TX
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- District
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead
- 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
- 1,287
- Boys / girls
- 676 / 611
- School capacity
- 1,450
- Capacity fill
- 1,287 / 1,450 (89%)
- Free school meals
- 19%
- FSM pupils
- 205
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: SCHOLARS' EDUCATION TRUST
- Academy trust
- SCHOLARS' EDUCATION TRUST
- Sponsor
- Scholars' Education Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Neil Hassell
- Telephone
- 01442390100
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
Expected standard
Inspection date
2026-03-17
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
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
- 47.8
- Progress 8
- -0.1
- English & maths grade 5+
- 46%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 72%
- EBacc entry
- 31%
- EBacc APS
- 4.2