Dame Alice Owen’s School

Overview

Dame Alice Owen’s School (usually known as Dame Alice Owen’s or simply as Owen’s) is a partially selective secondary school and Sixth Form with Academy status located in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. There are over 1,500 students aged 11 to 18 at the school; the school is entirely co-educational, and therefore contains roughly equal numbers of boys and girls. The school is consistently one of the highest performing state schools in England and Wales in terms of General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and GCE Advanced Level (A Level) results, and is widely considered one of the best schools in the United Kingdom. In 2016, it was named the State Secondary School of the Year by The Sunday Times in the newspaper’s rankings for the 2016–17 school year, and Tatler and The Daily Telegraph have also strongly praised it. Dame Alice Owen’s School is one of the most oversubscribed schools in the UK, with over 600 more applicants than places.