School profile
Gracewood Academy
Church Road, Rothwell, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 1EZ
Overview
Gracewood Academy is a state-funded school (academy converter) in Potters Bar, East of England, for pupils aged 11–18. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Phase of education
- Secondary
- Age range
- Ages 11–18
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 1,082
- Pupils on roll
- 420
- URN
- 152099
Admissions
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Academy trust or group
- FUTURE ACADEMIES
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official admissions data
Applications & demand
Preferences expressed by families through coordinated admissions, shown over time.
2026/27 admissions · Year 7
- First preferences
- 31
- Total preferences
- 110
- Offers made
- 108
Times the school was named as a family's first preference.
All recorded preference positions for this school.
Offers recorded through coordinated admissions, not physical capacity.
First preferences compared with offers
0.29 first preferences per offer
31 first preferences and 108 offers were recorded for 2026/27.
What does this mean?
This is the Department for Education's own published comparison of first preferences with total offers recorded. It indicates the level of requests made through coordinated admissions. Offers are not necessarily the school's maximum capacity, admissions arrangements vary between local authorities, the figure is not a measure of school quality, and it should not be used on its own to judge the likelihood of gaining a place.
Admissions history
| Admissions year | First preferences | Total preferences | Offers made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 31 | 110 | 108 |
Source: Department for Education · Applications and offers data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 2 November 2022 · Published 13 December 2022
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, Mount Grace School. It is not a judgement about the school under its current identity.
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Good
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- Church Road, Rothwell, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 1EZ
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
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