Haileybury Turnford

Haileybury Turnford is a welcoming, inclusive school where pupils behave impeccably and feel safe. Safeguarding standards are met. Inspectors judged attendance and behaviour, inclusion, and personal development and wellbeing as strong, with highly effective work to secure strong attendance, particularly for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND, and a well-established inclusive culture. The school is part of Haileybury Academy Trust and serves a community with above-average deprivation; around a third of pupils are eligible for free school meals. Achievement, curriculum and teaching, leadership and governance, and post-16 provision are judged at expected standard. Pupils typically achieve well in English and mathematics and from varied starting points, leaders have built an ambitious curriculum, and governance is diligent. However, checks on learning are not consistently sharp enough to deepen understanding, and post-16 outcomes and support need further improvement for some students, including some with higher prior attainment. A-level average point scores and value added have been below national averages in the most recent data. The next steps focus on building staff expertise in assessment and in using learning opportunities to deepen subject knowledge, especially in post-16. Overall, this is a school with a strong ethos, strong inclusion and behaviour, and clear areas for further refinement in academic consistency and post-16 achievement.

Strengths

• Highly effective attendance work, with disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND often attending above national averages.
• Impeccable pupil behaviour and positive attitudes, with lessons rarely disrupted by low-level issues.
• Bullying and serious poor behaviour are uncommon, and pupils trust staff to resolve concerns.
• Inclusion is a strength, supported by a well-trained team and high-quality support in class and in the flex centre.
• The personal development programme is a golden thread, creating an inclusive, respectful and welcoming culture.
• Pupils have a robust understanding of British values and treat each other and staff with respect.
• A broad co-curricular offer, including clubs, trips, music, drama and international visits, is well attended.
• Careers provision is high quality and tailored to pupils' needs and aspirations.
• Pupils typically achieve well in English and mathematics and learn well from varied starting points.
• Reading catch-up and foundational knowledge support are effective and help pupils access the ambitious curriculum.
• Leadership has a detailed understanding of the community and places inclusion and aspiration at the heart of its work.
• Staff value high-quality professional learning, and leaders manage workload and wellbeing well.
• Trustees and governors fulfil statutory responsibilities diligently and hold leaders to account robustly.
• Post-16 provision is inclusive, offers a range of qualifications and provides strong enrichment and careers guidance.

Areas for Improvement

• Checks on learning are not consistently used well, and teachers sometimes miss opportunities to deepen pupils' understanding.
• Some post-16 staff do not always support students well enough to develop detailed subject knowledge and achieve well.
• A small number of post-16 students with higher prior attainment have not always achieved well.
• A-level average point scores and value added have been below national averages in recent data.
• GCSE English and mathematics grade 5 outcomes remain below the national average, though close to average in the latest revised data.

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 Haileybury Turnford attended 92.5% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 23.4% 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, 6.1% of pupils at Haileybury Turnford were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). No pupils were 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 Haileybury Turnford had 16.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 7.5% 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, 14.1% of pupils at Haileybury Turnford were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 3.1% 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 Haileybury Turnford received £8,455 and spent £8,310 for each of its 967 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £506,000 (£523 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 Haileybury Turnford's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Haileybury Turnford is Expected standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Haileybury Turnford last inspected by Ofsted?

Haileybury Turnford was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Haileybury Turnford have?

Haileybury Turnford has 1,021 pupils on roll.

What age range does Haileybury Turnford cover?

Haileybury Turnford for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Haileybury Turnford's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 46.2, and 42% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Haileybury Turnford?

Haileybury Turnford is at Mill Lane, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, EN8 0JU.