Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy Overview

Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy is a junior school located in Hitchin and reports to the local authority of Hertfordshire.

Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 7 to 11 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 230 students but currently enrols 267 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 69.3% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 17.6% of students at the school.

16.5% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities