Hockerill Anglo-European College
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hertfordshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
Year 7 last distance offered, 2025–2026 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Hockerill Anglo-European College is a secondary school in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 June 2022. Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Hockerill Anglo-European College catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2024 | Not published |
| Year 7 2023 | Not published |
| Year 7 2022 | Not published |
| Year 7 2021 | Not published |
| Year 7 2020 | Not published |
| Year 7 2019 | Not published |
| Year 7 2018 | Not published |
| Year 7 2017 | Not published |
| Year 7 2016 | Not published |
| Year 7 2015 | Not published |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 73% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 61.7 (England 46).
- Year 7 2026 saw 152 first-choice applications for 61 offers: 2.5 first choices per offer, the highest of 74 Hertfordshire secondary schools.
- Of the 2026 Year 7 offers, 60 went to first-choice families, and 92 first-choice families (61%) were not offered a place.
- Families living outside Hertfordshire made 267 of the 704 Year 7 applications in 2026 (38%), and 15 offers went to them.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Hertfordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Dunmow Road, Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 5HX
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hertfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 903 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 June 2022
Strengths
- “Boarders and day pupils are happy here.”
- “They enjoy studying the school’s ambitiously broad range of academic subjects from Year 7 to Year 13.”
- “Leaders have very high expectations for all pupils.”
To improve
- “On occasion, where teachers’ expectations of pupils’ behaviour are not as routinely high, pupils are not as focused on their work and staff do not always follow up low-level disruption.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 April 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 73% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 61.7 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 152 first-preference applications, 61 offers in total, 60 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Hertfordshire.
- The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College 0.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Birchwood High School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Avanti Grange Secondary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Bishop's Stortford High School 1.7 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Leventhorpe 3.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Presdales School 9.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- The John Warner School 10.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
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