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Gracewood Academy

Secondary · Potters Bar · EN6 1EZ

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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

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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
Website
https://www.gracewood.futureacademies.org/
URN
152099

Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026

0.29 first-choice applications per place

108 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)
8.8%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
28.6%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

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