Secondary
Longdean School
Rumballs Rd, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8JB
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1436 of 1500 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.2
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- Trust
- SCHOLARS' EDUCATION TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 88.5
- All staff (FTE)
- 134.1
- Pupils per adult
- 10.7
- Pupils
- 1,436
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2025
Standards maintained
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
35%
3 points below the Hemel Hempstead average (38% across 6 schools)
42.4
0.5 above the Hemel Hempstead average (41.9 across 6 schools)
5th of 6 by our score, among the secondary schools in Hemel Hempstead we can score - 7 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 42.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.67 |
| Entered the EBacc | 44% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 56% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 35% |
| A level average points per entry | 29.23 |
| A level students | 102 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 44% |
| 22/23 | 45% |
| 23/24 | 34% |
| 24/25 | 35% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 31.7 |
| 22/23 | 31.1 |
| 23/24 | 32.6 |
| 24/25 | 29.2 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.34 |
| 22/23 | -0.08 |
| 23/24 | -0.29 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 45.0 |
| 22/23 | 45.5 |
| 23/24 | 42.5 |
| 24/25 | 42.4 |
Rumballs Rd, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8JB
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Hertfordshire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Ruth Georgiades
- Address
- Rumballs Rd, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8JB
- Telephone
- 01442217277