The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Thornden School

URN 136715 · Secondary · Academy converter · Hampshire

Winchester Road, Eastleigh, SO53 2DW

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 274 families named Thornden School as their first preference, and the school made 280 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 55% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 55% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.2 in 2021–2022 and 1.05 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 274 535 280 0.98
2024 320 632 287 1.11
2023 338 627 302 1.12
2022 342 593 289 1.18
2021 389 709 319 1.22
2020 337 590 301 1.12
2019 339 560 302 1.12
2018 324 533 289 1.12
2017 362 592 330 1.10
2016 340 529 299 1.14
2015 341 542 288 1.18
2014 329 581 314 1.05

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2022 to 202620222026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 9 June 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard

Achievement: Exceptional

Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Strong standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 21 June 2022

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 59.90 - 87.6% 49.3%
2023/24 61.40 0.74
likely between 0.57 and 0.91		 88.6% 57.9%
2022/23 59.70 0.51
likely between 0.34 and 0.68		 91.8% 51.2%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 81.0 77.5 0.0 3.5 4.3%
2023/24 82.2 71.3 6.5 4.5 13.4%
2022/23 93.6 75.6 6.8 11.2 19.2%
2021/22 88.6 80.4 5.3 2.9 9.3%
2020/21 86.1 78.1 1.2 6.9 9.4%
2019/20 89.4 81.2 5.0 3.2 9.2%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Hampshire publishes an admission zone for this school (THORNDEN SCHOOL).

Covers: 494 live postcodes across 11.166 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Crestwood Community School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

58 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Thornden School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Thornden School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.