State-fundedAcademy converter · Hertfordshire · SG9 9BT
Secondary with sixth form · ages 13–18
Freman College is a state-funded school in Hertfordshire, teaching pupils aged 13 to 18.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | +0.5887th percentile | +0.3677th percentile | +0.6891st percentile | +0.5486th percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 53.681st percentile | 50.471st percentile | 56.683rd percentile | 53.580th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was +0.58 — well above average, the 87th percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.58 of a grade per subject higher than pupils across England who had the same results at the end of primary school.
The 95% confidence interval for 2023–24 runs +0.40 to +0.77. That sits entirely above zero, so the above-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has moved around a good deal across the years shown, from +0.36 to +0.68. The three-year average is the steadier number to judge it on.
Attainment 8 is the average grade pupils leave with across eight GCSEs; it tells you where they ended up, and tracks the intake a school admits as much as anything the school does. Progress 8 compares those grades with pupils nationally who had the same results at the end of primary school, so it is the better measure of what a school added.
| Grade 5+ in English & Maths | 59%79th percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 4.6376th percentile |
A school can post a respectable overall score while coasting one group and carrying the average on another. The row that matters to you is the one your own child sits in.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower starters | +0.66 | +0.30 | +0.51 | +0.49 |
| Middle starters | +0.73 | +0.49 | +0.84 | +0.69 |
| Higher starters | +0.19 | +0.14 | +0.54 | +0.29 |
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 7.7%67th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 20.2%74th percentile |
Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is below the norm.
School remains Good
The outcome of an ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school's previous grade still holds rather than issuing a new one.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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