Overall Oxbridge
#1,082
4 ranked schools · -168 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
21
Offers
4
Offer rate19.1%
-3.3 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
On the River Lea in East Hertfordshire, Ware spreads from a compact historic core outward through modern suburban estates. Rows of Georgian and Victorian mills line the river, records of Ware's nineteenth-century industrial heritage. The parish today holds a population of around 19,600 residents.
The town's railway station provides links to Liverpool Street via West Anglia rail services, a journey of around fifty minutes. Ware is widely regarded as one of East Hertfordshire's most competitive postcodes for primary catchments, with Little Hadham and Old Hall Green extending the catchment belt south and east. Hunsdon borders the parish to the north.
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2
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1
All-through
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1
Post-16
colleges
3
Special
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Area Performance
Across 21 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 8.01/10, +0.58 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Ware schools
Ware vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Ware schools
top 53% of 14,978
top 53% of 14,978
top 23% of 3,862
top 23% of 3,862
top 25% of 2,555
top 25% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
4 ranked schools · -168 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
21
Offers
4
Oxford
1 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
3
Offers
0
Cambridge
4 ranked schools · -396 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
18
Offers
4
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