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Academic Performance

Not only do students at Thornden take full advantage of the range of extracurricular activities on offer, from superb sports clubs and teams to amazing Drama, Dance and Musical performances and clubs, they also achieve wonderful academic outcomes. These strong academic outcomes have been consistent over many years.

The 2023 Year 11 cohort at Thornden achieved excellent GCSE results, displaying fantastic academic progress whilst at Thornden, from their KS2 entry point to their KS4 outcomes.

Progress 8 

 

The overall progress 8 score in for the school in 2023 was 0.5

 

This means that students achieved over half a grade higher in each qualification on average, compared to similar pupils across the country.

For comparison, these are the average local and national Progress 8 scores.

This Progress 8 score places Thornden in the top 16% of schools nationally, the "well above average" banding.

English and Maths

In Maths, 95% of students achieved at least a grade 4, with 82% of students gaining a grade 5 or above, where grade 4 is a pass and grade 5 is a good pass at GCSE.

In English, 96% of students also achieved at least a grade 4 with 83% of students gaining at least one grade 5 or above, where grade 4 is a pass and grade 5 is a good pass at GCSE.

Performance in both English and Maths grades as a combination at grade 5+ was also excellent, far exceeding local and national averages:

EBacc

Students also have the opportunity to take a full EBacc suite of GCSE subjects and, indeed, a significant proportion of our students take these subjects at GCSE. Here you can see our EBacc entries compared to local and national averages as well as the average EBacc points score:

Subject performance

This shows the number of students entered for each GCSE, with a break down of the percentage of grades achieved at or above particular GCSE grades.

Subject

Number of students entered

% at grade 9

% at grade 7+

% at grade 5+

% at grade 4+

Arabic   4 50 75 100 100
Art - Ceramics  7 0 100 100 100
Art - Commercial  37 5 22 86 95
Art - Fine  21 10 52 86 100
Biology    114 23 59 96 100
BTEC Enterprise 26 0 35 50 92
Business  65 0 34 75 89
Cert in Technology and Composition RSL Level2 11 0 45 91 100
Chemistry   114 17 62 96 99
Combined Science   172 2 15 64 85
Computer Science   32 9 38 75 81
D&T Papers & Boards  12 0 17 50 83
D&T Textiles 18 6 39 83 94
D&T Timbers  31 0 10 58 77
Dance  24 21 75 96 96
Drama  55 20 44 75 87
Engineering  59 2 15 63 73
English Language  287 6 31 72 91
English Literature  286 6 31 80 92
Food Technology  35 11 34 80 94
French   98 15 41 69 85
Geography  169 10 46 82 93
German   38 3 21 82 89
History  123 7 32 63 77
Mathematics   287 9 44 82 95
Media Studies  37 5 43 86 95
Music  16 19 69 94 100
PE  38 5 24 61 76
Physics   114 20 67 96 99
Religious Studies  76 24 63 89 92
Spanish   78 13 38 79 92