Verulam School
Secondary · St Albans · AL1 4PR
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 22 May 2024
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987 pupils · 87% of 1,135 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Boys
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 15.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 17.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.4% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- URN
- 137038
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.43 first-choice applications per place184 places offered · 80 first-choice applications · usually has places
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.
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
The council does not publish a cutoff distance for this school.
Cutoff distances as published by the local authority (source). Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
152 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.
A-level results (2024/2025)
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)
81% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 9% moved to another state school · 10% 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
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 21 May 2024: School remains Good
- 8 November 2022: S8 No Formal Designation Visit
- 9 October 2018: Good
- 3 July 2018: S8 No Formal Designation Visit
- 11 October 2017: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.