Corfe Hills School

State-fundedAcademy converter · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · BH18 9BG

Secondary with sixth form · ages 13–18

Corfe Hills School is a state-funded school in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, teaching pupils aged 13 to 18.

GCSE results

Percentiles rank the school against every school in England with a published score.
2023–242022–232021–223-year average
Progress 8+0.0151st percentile+0.1865th percentile+0.1965th percentile+0.1362nd percentile
Attainment 843.944th percentile46.254th percentile48.955th percentile46.352nd percentile

Progress 8 for 2023–24 was +0.01 — average, the 51st percentile nationally. Pupils here left with much the grades you would expect of pupils who had the same results at the end of primary school.

The 95% confidence interval for 2023–24 runs -0.17 to +0.20. That range includes zero, so on this year's figures the school cannot be told apart from an average one — treat small differences between schools with care. It has fallen in each of the years shown (2021–22 to 2023–24) — worth asking the school about at an open evening.

Attainment 8 is the average grade pupils leave with across eight GCSEs; it tells you where they ended up, and tracks the intake a school admits as much as anything the school does. Progress 8 compares those grades with pupils nationally who had the same results at the end of primary school, so it is the better measure of what a school added.

Other GCSE measures, 2023–24.
Grade 5+ in English & Maths41%46th percentile
EBacc average point score3.7140th percentile

Progress 8 by where pupils started

A school can post a respectable overall score while coasting one group and carrying the average on another. The row that matters to you is the one your own child sits in.

Pupils grouped by their results at the end of primary school.
2023–242022–232021–223-year average
Lower starters-0.01+0.22+0.29+0.17
Middle starters+0.00+0.19+0.25+0.15
Higher starters+0.12+0.07-0.28-0.03

How hard it is to get in

Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.

Attendance

2023–2024 · lower is better. A pupil is persistently absent if they miss a tenth or more of sessions.
Overall absence11.9%12th percentile
Persistently absent pupils33.1%18th percentile

Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is above the norm.

Ofsted

Good

A legacy overall effectiveness grade, from an inspection before Ofsted retired the single headline grade in 2025.

What these figures don't tell you

The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.

Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.

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