School profile
The Thomas Hardye School
Queen's Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2ET
Overview
The Thomas Hardye School is a state-funded school (academy converter) in Dorchester, South West, for pupils aged 13–18. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Phase of education
- Secondary
- Age range
- Ages 13–18
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 2,138
- Pupils on roll
- 2,014
- URN
- 137163
Admissions
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Academy trust or group
- WESSEX MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
School places
DfE school capacity survey · May 2025 (2024/25)
- Capacity at survey date
- 2,154
- Pupils on roll
- 2,033
- Unfilled places at survey date
- 121
A dated snapshot from the Department for Education school capacity survey, separate from the school details above. Unfilled places at the survey date do not mean places are currently available for admission. About this data
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
Attainment 8 score
- School
- 49.8
- England
- 47.1
Pupils included: 439
Grade 5 or above in English & maths
- School
- 49.9%
- England
- 46.5%
Pupils included: 439
Grade 4 or above in English & maths
- School
- 71.1%
- England
- 66.4%
Pupils included: 439
Entering the EBacc
- School
- 58.1%
- England
- 41.5%
Pupils included: 439
Progress 8 was not published for 2024/25.
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 4 February 2025 · Published 12 March 2025
Original education inspection framework (September 2024 to November 2025)
Ofsted did not give schools an overall effectiveness grade during this inspection period. The judgements Ofsted did publish are shown below.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Good
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
- VI - Visual Impairment
- HI - Hearing Impairment
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
- PD - Physical Disability
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- Queen's Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2ET
- Local authority
- Dorset
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