Hitchin Boys' School

Term dates

Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Hertfordshire council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

See Hertfordshire's full dates

Admissions

Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.

Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK

How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.

For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 237 families put this school as their first choice, and 203 places were offered. 203 of the families who put it first got a place (86%). More families put it first than there were places.

Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.

Ofsted inspection

Report card, 25 November 2025. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.

Inclusion

Exceptional

Curriculum and teaching

Strong standard

Achievement

Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour

Exceptional

Personal development and wellbeing

Exceptional

Sixth form

Strong standard

Leadership and governance

Exceptional

Safeguarding standards: met.

Read the Ofsted reports

From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.

About and location

Type

Academy

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–18

Pupils

1364 (capacity 1400)

Gender

Boys

Academy trust

HITCHIN BOYS' SCHOOL

Phone

01462432181

Address

Grammar School Walk, Hitchin, SG5 1JB

Website

hitchinboys.co.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports