Nicholas Breakspear Catholic 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: as a Roman Catholic school, it may give priority to children of that faith, then usually by distance. Check its admissions policy.

For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 194 families put this school as their first choice, and 170 places were offered. 156 of the families who put it first got a place (80%). 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

Latest graded inspection, 14 November 2023. Overall: Outstanding

Quality of education

Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Outstanding

Sixth form

Outstanding

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

1134 (capacity 1056)

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

Roman Catholic

Diocese

Archdiocese of Westminster

Academy trust

THE DIOCESE OF WESTMINSTER ACADEMY TRUST

Phone

01727860079

Address

Colney Heath Lane, St Albans, AL4 0TT

Website

nbs.herts.sch.co.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports