Mount Grace School
Church Road, Potters Bar, EN6 1EZ
This school is closed (it closed in November 2025).
It was replaced by Gracewood Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Headteacher
- Mrs Geeta Patel
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Constituency
- Hertsmere
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 1,082
- Pupils on roll
- 489
- URN
- 137224
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
About this school
Mount Grace School was a secondary academy in Potters Bar. It taught children aged 11 to 18 and had 489 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Mount Grace School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in August 2011, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 69 | 90 | 79 |
| Attainment 8 score | 39.6 | 42.2 | 36.1 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.18 -0.51 to +0.16 | -0.47 -0.77 to -0.17 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 30% | 30% | 26.6% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 48% | 60% | 46.8% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 25% | 25.6% | 29.1% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.0 |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Mount Grace School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Hertfordshire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 39.6 | 44.6 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 42.2 | 44.2 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 36.1 | 44.1 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 10% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 12.7% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 13.2% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 507 |
| 2023/24 | 508 |
| 2024/25 | 489 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Mount Grace School compares
Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 29% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 3% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 36.1 | 13.2% | 30.7% | 489 | — |
| Gracewood Academy | — | — | — | 420 | 0.0 miles |
| Dame Alice Owen's School | 72.9 | 4% | 4.9% | 1,467 | 1.3 miles |
| Chancellor's School | 47.6 | 8.8% | 17.9% | 1,241 | 1.7 miles |
| JCoSS | 60.9 | 8.1% | 5% | 1,356 | 3.4 miles |
| Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet | 85.6 | 3.3% | 4.2% | 1,321 | 3.5 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 30.68%
- English as an additional language
- 13.9%
- Overall absence
- 13.16%
- Persistent absence
- 40.5%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Gracewood Academy0.0 miles
Secondary · Potters Bar
-
Dame Alice Owen's School1.3 miles
Secondary · Potters Bar
-
Chancellor's School1.7 miles
Secondary · Hatfield
-
JCoSS3.4 miles
Secondary · New Barnet
-
Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet3.5 miles
Secondary · Barnet
Other schools in Potters Bar
- Dame Alice Owen's School Secondary
- Gracewood Academy Secondary
- Cranborne Primary School Primary
- Cuffley School Primary
- Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School Primary
- Little Heath Primary School Primary
- Oakmere Primary School Primary
- Pope Paul Catholic Primary School Primary
- St Giles' CofE Primary School Primary
- The Wroxham School Primary
- Chase House School Special schools
- Darwin School Special schools
Common questions
- What ages does Mount Grace School teach?
- Mount Grace School taught children aged 11 to 18. It was a secondary school in Potters Bar.
- Has Mount Grace School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Mount Grace School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How many pupils are at Mount Grace School?
- Mount Grace School had 489 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 18.
- How have Mount Grace School's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 39.6 in 2022/23 and 36.1 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Mount Grace School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Mount Grace School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
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. This page was last updated on 30 November 2025.