The Thomas Hardye School

Queen's Avenue, Dorset, DT1 2ET

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About this school

The Thomas Hardye School is an Academy converter serving secondary age pupils, located in Dorset, Dorset. The school has 2,051 pupils enrolled. Ofsted: Good (last overall grade). Last inspected 4 February 2025. The Headteacher is N St J F Rutherford. The school is administered by Dorset local authority. It belongs to WESSEX MULTI ACADEMY TRUST. It opened in 1 August 2011.

School details

Headteacher

N St J F Rutherford

Trust

WESSEX MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

Local authority

Dorset

Gender

Mixed

URN

137163

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at The Thomas Hardye School are handled by the school or the local authority (Dorset). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

Source: Department for Education school performance data. Check this school on GOV.UK →

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