North Herts Education Support Centre
North Herts Education Support Centre is a pupil referral unit in Letchworth Garden City for boys and girls aged 5 to 16. It has 4 pupils. About 50 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far more than at most schools in England. Ofsted's last grade was inspected 2025, no overall grade.
Briar Patch Lane, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 3LY01462 487207northhertsesc.herts.sch.ukMr Dan Nearney headteacherAll details
What Ofsted found
Ofsted's last full inspection was on 1 July 2025, back when it gave schools one overall grade. Read the report on Ofsted's website.
Not judged Between September 2024 and November 2025, Ofsted graded each area but stopped giving one overall word.
Earlier inspections (1)
| Date | Type | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 13 July 2023 | Ungraded | School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next |
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Hertfordshire council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: emotional and mental health (4).
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | 50% | – | 100% | 50% | 25% | 57% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 0% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the council school accounts, year to March 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other primary schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Highfield School | Academy | 120 m | 937 | Good 2023 | 22 | Compare |
| St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School | Academy | 240 m | 221 | Good 2023 | 62 | Compare |
| St Francis College | Independent (grammar) | 830 m | 264 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| St Christopher School | Independent | 0.6 miles | 492 | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Fearnhill School | Foundation | 0.6 miles | 597 | Report card 2026 | 17 | Compare |
| Highover Primary School | Council | 0.8 miles | 433 | No overall grade 2025 | 95 | Compare |
| Icknield Infant and Nursery School | Council | 0.8 miles | 206 | No overall grade 2025 | 1 | Compare |
| Lordship Farm Primary School | Council | 0.9 miles | 447 | Report card 2026 | 67 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is North Herts Education Support Centre a good school?
North Herts Education Support Centre doesn't have a score yet. Ofsted rated it not judged at its last inspection in July 2025.
What is North Herts Education Support Centre's Ofsted rating?
Ofsted rated North Herts Education Support Centre not judged at its last full inspection on 1 July 2025.
How many pupils does North Herts Education Support Centre have?
4 pupils aged 5 to 16 were on the roll in January 2026.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Briar Patch Lane, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 3LY
- Telephone
- 01462 487207
- Website
- www.northhertsesc.herts.sch.uk
- Headteacher
- Mr Dan Nearney
- Type of school
- Pupil referral unit (Pupil referral unit, local authority maintained schools)
- Phase
- Pupil referral unit / alternative provision, ages 5-16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Ward
- Letchworth South West
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 September 1995
- URN
- 130344 · LAESTAB 9191101 · UKPRN 10016846
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, consistent financial reporting 2024/25.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.