Graded inspection · Feb 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 435 | 47.8 | 51% | 70% | – |
| 2024/25 | 439 | 49.8 | 50% | 71% | – |
| 2023/24 | 455 | 48.9 | 48% | 70% | +0.30 |
| 2022/23 | 451 | 48.9 | 49% | 75% | +0.26 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Thomas Hardye SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade202547.8Attainment 8
- 0.4 km · Dorset2026
- 1.6 km · DorsetGood2022
- 3.6 km · DorsetGood20241.9applications per place 32.0Attainment 8
- 7.4 km · DorsetGood20231.6applications per place 38.9Attainment 8
- 8.5 km · DorsetSome aspects not as strong2025
- 11.1 km · DorsetRequires improvement20241.7applications per place 40.0Attainment 8
- 12.5 km · Dorset20262.3applications per place 37.8Attainment 8
- 19.9 km · Dorset20261.3applications per place 37.7Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 137163 · 838/4615
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 2,138 pupils · 2,014 on roll
- Free school meals
- 19.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision and SEN unit
- Opened
- 1 August 2011
- Replaced
- The Thomas Hardye School (URN 113895)
- Address
- Queen's Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 2ET
- Local authority
- Dorset
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources