Dame Alice Owen's School A GSG School
- Dame Alice Owen's School
Dugdale Hill Lane
Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 2DU - Head: Mrs Hannah Nemko
- T 01707 643441
- F 01707 645011
- E [email protected]
- W damealiceowens.herts.sch.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Read about the best schools in East Hertfordshire and West Hertfordshire
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Hertfordshire
- Pupils: 1,451; sixth formers: 424
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: See our website.
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Dame Alice Owen’s has high expectations of its pupils – and they rise to the challenge. Almost 40 per cent of youngsters are selected by academic ability or musical talent and results and facilities are more than a match for local independent schools. To this day Dame Alice Owen’s takes immense pride in its history. All year 7s receive a crown (now a £5 commemorative coin) at a ceremony at the Brewers Hall in the City of London. Older pupils receive annual…
What the school says...
Converted to an academy 2011.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2016, Hannah Nemko (early 40s). MA (Nottingham) MeLtrs (Stasbourg) PGCE. Married to a teacher, with two young children, Ms Nemko was promoted to the top job from her role as senior deputy here. She joined the school in 2015 from Yavneh College, where she was deputy head and helped set up the college. Prior to that she taught for two years at the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe and at Immanuel College for five years before that. Born and brought up in Essex, Ms Nemko was, by her own admission, dedicated to her studies and a model schoolgirl. Head girl of her High School (Beal High School), she confides that she loved playing schools as a child and was the first in her family to go to university. She recalls her father...
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Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
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Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Keble Prep School | 2023 | 1 |
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