Forest Hall School
Forest Hall Road, Stansted Mountfitchet, CM24 8TZ
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- BMAT EDUCATION
- Headteacher
- Mr Dustin Schuyler
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious ethos
- None
- Sponsor
- BMAT Education
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
- Constituency
- North West Essex
- Setting
- Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 648
- Pupils on roll
- 506
- URN
- 141328
- Local authority
- Essex
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01279813384
About this school
Forest Hall School is a secondary academy in Stansted Mountfitchet. It teaches children aged 11 to 16 and has 506 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. Each area of the school's work is graded on a five-point scale, and safeguarding is judged separately.
- Inclusion
- Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour
- Needs attention
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding
- Met
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 95 | 107 | 78 |
| Attainment 8 score | 38.5 | 44.1 | 40.6 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.41 -0.70 to -0.12 | +0.27 -0.01 to +0.55 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 41% | 39.3% | 34.6% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 60% | 62.6% | 60.3% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 61% | 53.3% | 46.2% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.6 |
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 Forest Hall 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 | Essex average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 38.5 | 43.8 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 44.1 | 41.6 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 40.6 | 42.2 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 10.5% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 9.5% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 12.2% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 491 |
| 2023/24 | 496 |
| 2024/25 | 472 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Forest Hall School compares
Forest Hall School ranked 55th of 78 secondary schools in Essex for Attainment 8 in 2024/25. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 40% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 4% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 40.6 | 12.2% | 30.3% | 506 | — |
| Birchwood High School | 46.1 | 10.2% | 20.1% | 1,417 | 1.7 miles |
| Hockerill Anglo-European College | 61.7 | 6% | 5.2% | 903 | 2.2 miles |
| The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College | 63.6 | 7.5% | 5.6% | 1,508 | 2.4 miles |
| Avanti Grange Secondary School | — | 5.3% | 12.9% | 660 | 2.5 miles |
| St Mary's Catholic School | 57.6 | 5.9% | 10.4% | 1,106 | 2.8 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.
Inspection history
-
Graded inspection report10 February 2026
- 18 November 2021
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 30.3%
- English as an additional language
- 5.7%
- Overall absence
- 12.18%
- Persistent absence
- 37.82%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Birchwood High School1.7 miles
Secondary · Bishop's Stortford
-
Hockerill Anglo-European College2.2 miles
Secondary · Bishop's Stortford
-
The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College2.4 miles
Secondary · Bishop's Stortford
-
Avanti Grange Secondary School2.5 miles
Secondary · Bishops Stortford
-
St Mary's Catholic School2.8 miles
Secondary · Bishop's Stortford
Other schools in Stansted Mountfitchet
- Magna Carta Primary Academy Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Forest Hall School teach?
- Forest Hall School teaches children aged 11 to 16. It is a secondary school in Stansted Mountfitchet.
- Who is the headteacher of Forest Hall School?
- The headteacher of Forest Hall School is Mr Dustin Schuyler, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Forest Hall School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Forest Hall School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Forest Hall School?
- Forest Hall School has 506 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 16.
- Is Forest Hall School full?
- Forest Hall School has capacity for 648 pupils and 506 on roll (78%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Forest Hall School a faith school?
- No. Forest Hall School has no designated religious character.
- Is Forest Hall School a selective school?
- No. Forest Hall School is recorded as non-selective in the schools register.
- Who runs Forest Hall School?
- Forest Hall School is part of BMAT EDUCATION. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- What SEN provision does Forest Hall School have?
- The schools register lists Forest Hall School's special educational needs provision as: SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability. Contact the school to discuss how it would support a particular child.
- How have Forest Hall School's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 38.5 in 2022/23 and 40.6 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Forest Hall School rank locally?
- Forest Hall School ranked 55th of 78 secondary schools in Essex for Attainment 8. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 40% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 4% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Forest Hall School's absence rate?
- Forest Hall School's overall absence rate is 12.2% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Forest Hall School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Forest Hall 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 1 July 2026.