Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School is a girls' comprehensive school

Comprehensive school

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 located in Hatfield, Hertfordshire

Hatfield, Hertfordshire

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. It was founded in 1960 as a girls' grammar school

Grammar school

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. It has a sixth form

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 of about 120 students according to the latest OFSTED

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 report. The current (since September 2004) Headteacher is Theodora Nickson, and the school recently became specialised in Humanities and English. In the last OFSTED report it got a 'good' rating.

Tracey Thorn

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 from Everything But The Girl

Everything but the Girl

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studied at the school.