The Hereford Church of England Academy
Secondary · Hereford · HR2 7NG
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 6 February 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
647 pupils · 86% of 750 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Christian
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 39.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 15.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 8.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.9% of pupils
- URN
- 135662
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.91 first-choice applications per place127 places offered · 115 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
89 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
84% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% moved to another state school · 12% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 6 February 2024: Requires improvement
- 27 January 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 2
- 8 October 2019: Schools into Special Measures Visit 1
- 20 November 2018: Inadequate
- 1 February 2018: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 10 May 2017: Requires improvement
- 21 June 2016: Taking effective action towards the removal of serious weaknesses designation
- 18 November 2015: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.