State-fundedAcademy converter · Dorset · DT1 2ET
Secondary with sixth form · ages 13–18
The Thomas Hardye School is a state-funded school in Dorset, teaching pupils aged 13 to 18.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | +0.3073rd percentile | +0.2670th percentile | +0.1965th percentile | +0.2570th percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 48.966th percentile | 48.965th percentile | 51.566th percentile | 49.867th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was +0.30 — above average, the 73rd percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.30 of a grade per subject higher than pupils across England who had the same results at the end of primary school.
The 95% confidence interval for 2023–24 runs +0.16 to +0.43. That sits entirely above zero, so the above-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has risen in each of the years shown (2021–22 to 2023–24), which is a more convincing signal than any single year.
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.
| Grade 5+ in English & Maths | 48%61st percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 4.4169th percentile |
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.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower starters | +0.32 | +0.14 | +0.16 | +0.21 |
| Middle starters | +0.23 | +0.32 | +0.29 | +0.28 |
| Higher starters | +0.42 | +0.23 | -0.02 | +0.21 |
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 11.6%14th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 33.6%17th 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.
Not inspected, or no grade in the published data
Around half of schools currently have no grade here — usually recently opened schools, or academies whose last full inspection was under a predecessor URN.
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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