Gracewood Academy
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hertfordshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
Unlock every school · £9.99 Open on the map →Gracewood Academy is a secondary school in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Hertfordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Gracewood Academy 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 | Not published |
| 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
- For Year 7 in 2026, there were 31 first-choice applications for 108 offers: 0.3 first choices per offer, the 2nd lowest of 74 Hertfordshire secondary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, and 77 of the offers went to families who had ranked it second or lower.
- Every Year 7 applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 28 of the 74 other Hertfordshire secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- Of its 420 pupils in January 2026, 28.3% were eligible for free school meals. The middle figure across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Hertfordshire is 19.2%.
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
- Church Road, Rothwell, Potters Bar, EN6 1EZ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Council
- Hertfordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 420 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.3% of pupils eligible
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 31 first-preference applications, 108 offers in total, 31 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.
- Dame Alice Owen's School 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Chancellor's School 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Onslow St Audrey's School 4.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School 4.3 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Hertswood Academy 4.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Elstree Screen Arts Academy 4.4 mi Not judged
- Yavneh College 5.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Goffs Academy 5.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
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