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Schools in the Herefordshire, County of local authority

Herefordshire, County of has 115 schools listed on OfferDay across 13 towns.

78 primary schools · 14 secondary schools · 1 all-through school · 3 sixth forms and colleges · 14 special and alternative provision schools · 5 independent schools

About schools in Herefordshire, County of

Herefordshire, County of lists 115 schools, most of them primary schools. Its 14 secondary schools are where families compare options once a child finishes primary. One all-through school teaches every age from the early years to school-leaving age on a single site.

Ofsted inspects every school listed here. Its newer reports judge a school across several areas rather than giving one overall grade, while older reports still carry the previous single grade, so read the framework and the date on each page before you set two schools side by side. Where results have been published you will also find key stage 2 scores for the primary schools and Attainment 8 for the secondary schools. An inspection or a results table captures a school at one past moment, so use this page to draw up a shortlist and then visit.

Key stage 2, 2024/25
62%
of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, across the 74 schools with published results
Key stage 4, 2024/25
45.0
average Attainment 8 score, across the 18 schools with published results

Top schools in Herefordshire, County of

Ranked by the latest published results; primary and secondary schools are measured differently and never compared with each other.

Primary

  1. 1 Longtown Community Primary School 100%
  2. 2 St Mary's Primary School, Dilwyn 100%
  3. 3 Kimbolton St James CofE Primary School 100%
  4. 4 Clifford Primary School 94%
  5. 5 Little Dewchurch CofE Primary School 89%
  6. 6 Wigmore Primary School 87%
  7. 7 Walford Nursery & Primary School 84%
  8. 8 St Thomas Cantilupe CofE Academy 82%

Secondary

  1. 1 St Mary's RC High School 52.2
  2. 2 The Steiner Academy Hereford 51.0
  3. 3 Fairfield High School 50.3
  4. 4 Wigmore School 48.4
  5. 5 Weobley High School 47.8
  6. 6 John Kyrle High School and Sixth Form Centre Academy 47.7
  7. 7 Whitecross Hereford 46.5
  8. 8 John Masefield High School 46.2

Schools by town

The count beside each town is the number of its schools under Herefordshire, County of.

Schools not listed under a town

These schools have no town recorded in the national register.

Common questions about schools in Herefordshire, County of

How many schools does Herefordshire, County of have?
OfferDay lists 115 schools in Herefordshire, County of, including 78 primary schools and 14 secondary schools.
Who inspects schools in Herefordshire, County of?
Every school in Herefordshire, County of is inspected by Ofsted. Newer reports grade several areas of a school separately on a report card, while older reports carry a single overall grade, so check the framework and the date on each page before you compare two schools.
How are schools in Herefordshire, County of ranked?
OfferDay ranks schools in Herefordshire, County of where the Department for Education has published results, by key stage 2 scores for primary schools and Attainment 8 for secondary schools. The ranking links are near the top of this page. A results table only captures one part of a school, so use it to draw up a shortlist and then visit.
How many towns are in the Herefordshire, County of local authority?
OfferDay groups the Herefordshire, County of schools across 13 towns, listed in the schools-by-town section on this page. Any school with no town recorded in the national register is listed separately, grouped by phase, so every school in the local authority is reachable.

School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. Information on this page was last updated on 28 July 2026.