Beaumont School

Beaumont School is a highly inclusive, ambitious secondary school where pupils are expected to succeed and are very well prepared for their next steps. Inspectors found exceptionally strong provision across the curriculum, behaviour, personal development, leadership and the sixth form, with pupils demonstrating exemplary attitudes, mature behaviour and excellent academic outcomes. The school’s broad and well-sequenced curriculum, strong teaching and effective support for pupils with SEND help all pupils, including those with complex needs, achieve very well. Reading is established across the school, and pupils who struggle receive effective help to catch up. The wider development offer is rich and well considered, giving pupils extensive opportunities for leadership, community involvement, trips, careers and character development. Sixth-form students who join the school anew are welcomed and quickly become valued members of the community, and staff are positive about training, workload and well-being. Trustees provide effective support and challenge, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and its roll has increased significantly since the previous inspection. Attendance is high, and leaders are working closely with families of persistently absent pupils, many of whom are beginning to attend more frequently. No areas of concern were identified in the report.

Strengths

• Highly inclusive school with a strong ethos of helping pupils enjoy and excel
• Pupils have exemplary attitudes to learning and behave with maturity
• Excellent academic outcomes and very good preparation for next steps
• Broad, ambitious and exceptionally well-sequenced curriculum
• Teachers have strong subject and teaching knowledge and scaffold learning clearly
• Effective checks for understanding and accurate use of subject-specific vocabulary
• Swift identification of SEND needs and effective support, including for pupils with complex needs
• Established reading culture with effective support for pupils who struggle to read
• Rich wider development offer, including leadership, clubs, trips, community work and careers
• Sixth-form students who newly join are welcomed and quickly feel valued
• Staff are positive about training, workload and well-being
• Trustees are determined, knowledgeable and provide effective challenge and support
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Beaumont School attended 94.8% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 11.1% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.8% of pupils at Beaumont School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). One pupil was permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Beaumont School had 16.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 4.9% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 13.0% of pupils at Beaumont School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 3.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Beaumont School received £7,474 and spent £7,459 for each of its 1,651 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,935,000 (£1,172 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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What is Beaumont School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Beaumont School is Outstanding, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was Beaumont School last inspected by Ofsted?

Beaumont School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Beaumont School have?

Beaumont School has 1,722 pupils on roll.

What age range does Beaumont School cover?

Beaumont School for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Beaumont School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 63.0, and 76% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Beaumont School?

Beaumont School is at Austen Way, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 0XB.