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Corfe Hills School

Secondary · Broadstone · BH18 9BG

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Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system

This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.

Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 14 September 2021

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At a glance

943 pupils · 55% of 1,716 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
13–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Free school meals
16.7% of pupils
English as additional language
3.7% of pupils
SEN support
12.2% of pupils
EHC plan
3.6% of pupils
Sixth form
Yes
Website
http://www.corfehills.net/
URN
136574

Admissions cutoff distance: Year 9

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

GCSE results (2024/2025)

234 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025

Attainment 8 score
46.7
England 46.1
Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs
73.1%
England 64.8%
Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs
46.2%
England 45.4%
EBacc average point score
4
England 4.1

Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

A-level results (2024/2025)

A-level points per entry (England: 35 ≈ B-) D+
24.7
England 35

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Attainment 8, 2024/2025

This school46.7
Median of its 12 closest peers49.4
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole average50.8
England46.1

On attainment 8, this school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Shevington High SchoolWigan · 196 miles awayExpected standard49
The Beaconsfield SchoolBeaconsfield · 83 miles awayGood43.8
Alder Grange SchoolRossendale · 203 miles awayNeeds attention37
King James Academy RoystonRoyston · 124 miles awayGood40.3
Woldgate School and Sixth Form CollegeYork · 225 miles awayNo current grade46.9
Chew Valley SchoolBristol · 49 miles awayExpected standard49.8
Holy Cross Catholic High SchoolChorley · 200 miles awayGood55
Royal Alexandra and Albert SchoolReigate · 87 miles awayGood53.2
Summerhill SchoolKingswinford · 119 miles awayGood51.6
Manor High SchoolLeicester · 133 miles awayGood58.9
Ark the King's SchoolPontefract · 204 miles awayGood49.9
John Hanson Community SchoolAndover · 37 miles awayGood43.5

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
9.3%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
25%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
16.9
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

86% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school · 9% left the state-funded sector

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Where pupils go after GCSEs

In sustained education, work or training
98%
Continuing in education
92%
Apprenticeship
5%
Employment
1%

Where students go after sixth form

To university / higher education
35%
Apprenticeship
10%
Employment
44%
Any sustained destination
90%

Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
10/10among the least deprived tenth of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher33.6%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications14.1%18.1%
In managerial or professional work42.7%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways9.9%18.1%
Residents in very good health49.4%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier93.9%62.3%
Social housing1.1%17.1%
Privately rented4.9%20.5%
Detached houses91.2%22.9%
Flats5.5%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms37.8%21.1%
Households with no car or van11.6%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01015401 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,278 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£430,000255 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£348,000–£534,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (163)£500,000
Semi-detached (34)£366,500
Terraced (28)£345,000
Flat (30)£210,000

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
2an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
2an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
3an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
1an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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