Exam Results & Performance (2024-2025)
Evaluating a school's academic performance requires looking beyond raw grades. The Department for Education provides several key metrics to help parents understand both the overall attainment levels and the progress students make between primary school and their GCSEs. Below, we break down Corfe Hills School's performance for the 2024-2025 academic year (cohort size: 931 students) and compare it against the broader context of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP). Note that BCP-wide rankings and averages include all secondary schools, including selective grammar schools, which naturally impacts the spread of the data.
Attainment 8
What it measures: Attainment 8 calculates a student's average grade across eight key subjects, including English and Maths (which are double-weighted). It provides a snapshot of raw academic achievement at the end of Key Stage 4.
For 2024-2025, Corfe Hills School achieved an Attainment 8 score of 46.7. This compares to a BCP non-selective school average of 46.44, and places the school 14 of 22 across all 22 BCP secondary schools with published data. Nationally, the England state-funded mainstream mean for the prior year was 46.3. Looking at the year-on-year trend, the school's score shifted from 43.9 in 2023-2024.
Importantly, the data also highlights the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. At Corfe Hills School, the Disadvantaged Attainment 8 score is 35.7, illustrating the gap between disadvantaged students and their peers.
Progress 8
What it measures: Progress 8 measures the progress a student makes from the end of primary school (Key Stage 2) to the end of secondary school (Key Stage 4), compared to students across England who started with similar results. A score of 0 means students made average progress.
Please note: Progress 8 data is not published for the 2024-2025 cohort because those students did not sit KS2 SATs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the most recent available Progress 8 score for Corfe Hills School is from the 2023-2024 academic year, where the school achieved a score of 0.01.
This score indicates how much value the school added during that specific period. For context, the BCP non-selective average was 0.11, and the school ranked 14 of 21 across all 21 published BCP schools for that metric.
Basics 9-5 and 9-4
What it measures: The "Basics" metric tracks the percentage of students achieving a passing grade in both English and Mathematics. A grade 5 is considered a "strong pass," while a grade 4 is a "standard pass."
At Corfe Hills School, 46.2% of students achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and Maths. This is compared to 40.8% in the previous academic year (2023-2024). Furthermore, 73.1% of the cohort secured a standard pass (grade 4 or above) in these crucial subjects.
English Baccalaureate (EBacc)
What it measures: The EBacc is a set of subjects (English, Maths, Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography) that keeps young people's options open for further study. The EBacc Average Point Score (APS) calculates the average grades achieved across this suite of subjects.
The EBacc APS for Corfe Hills School stands at 3.97, with an EBacc entry rate of 22.2%. By comparison, the BCP non-selective average EBacc APS is 4.16, and the school ranks 16 of 22 among all 22 published secondary schools in the area.