Gracewood Academy
Secondary · Potters Bar · EN6 1EZ
Requires improvement
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.
Quality of education: Requires improvementBehaviour & attitudes: Requires improvementPersonal development: Requires improvementLeadership & management: Requires improvementSafeguarding effective: Yes
Inspected 2 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
420 pupils · 39% of 1,082 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 29% of pupils
- Sixth form
- Yes
- URN
- 152099
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.29 first-choice applications per place108 places offered · 31 first-choice applications · usually has places
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.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Sessions missed (overall absence)
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.