Borough-wide
Best Schools in Dacorum
Dacorum Daily’s borough-wide guide to the best schools: from Hemel Hempstead’s neighbourhood parades to Berkhamsted High Street and the village pubs in between.
We start with places we would send a friend. When a village has no honest equivalent, we say so and point to the next town. That is how you build trust, and how you eventually rank.
We do not publish a fake league table. We map the options, the admissions authority, and the honest logistics. Ofsted and HCC remain the official sources.
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Hemel Hempstead
The Hemel Hempstead School
Large mixed secondary in Heath Lane: one of the town’s main state options.
Berkhamsted
Ashlyns School
Berkhamsted’s state secondary, on the Chesham Road ridge.
Tring
Tring School
The town’s secondary: Church of England, large, and the reason many families stay west.
Kings Langley
Kings Langley School
Village secondary that also draws the south of Hemel Hempstead.
Berkhamsted
Berkhamsted School
Large independent, multiple campuses: a defining institution of the town.
Hemel Hempstead
West Herts College (Hemel campus)
FE college campus in the town: vocational routes, adult learning, UCAS as well as apprenticeships.