Secondary
Bushey Meads School
Coldharbour Lane, Bushey, WD23 4PA
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1200 of 1300 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.0
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- Trust
- BUSHEY ST JAMES TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 75.8
- All staff (FTE)
- 136.8
- Pupils per adult
- 8.9
- Pupils
- 1,213
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 January 2025
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
- Sixth formGood
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.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
November 2019
Previous framework
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationGood
GCSE results
41%
43.6
3rd of 3 by our score, among the secondary schools in Bushey we can score - 4 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 | 43.6 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.47 |
| Entered the EBacc | 11% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 64% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 41% |
| A level average points per entry | 27.61 |
| A level students | 122 |
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 | 66% |
| 22/23 | 60% |
| 23/24 | 41% |
| 24/25 | 41% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 36.2 |
| 22/23 | 30.5 |
| 23/24 | 30.1 |
| 24/25 | 27.6 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.02 |
| 22/23 | -0.02 |
| 23/24 | -0.45 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 54.1 |
| 22/23 | 50.8 |
| 23/24 | 42.1 |
| 24/25 | 43.6 |
Coldharbour Lane, Bushey, WD23 4PA
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
- Executive Principal
- Jeremy Turner
- Address
- Coldharbour Lane, Bushey, WD23 4PA
- Telephone
- 02089503000