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 2024 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 2024 was 0.74

 

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, 93.1% of students achieved at least a grade 4, with 81% 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, 91.4% of students also achieved at least a grade 4 with 84.8% 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

Please see below for information regarding the percentage of students achieving each grade, as well as the number of students who took that GCSE in 2024.

 

Subject	9 %	8 %	7 %	6 %	5 %	4 %	3 %	2 %	1 %	U %	Total Grades
Art Ceramics	11	44	33	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Art Fine	29	17	8	29	13	4	0	0	0	0	24
Art Graphic Communication	11	0	33	33	11	6	6	0	0	0	18
Biology	33	26	21	13	7	1	0	0	0	0	106
Business Studies	12	21	12	22	12	9	10	2	0	0	58
Chemistry	31	25	22	13	8	1	0	0	1	0	107
Combined Science	4	10	11	14	30	17	10	3	1	0	364
Computer Science	33	12	9	9	12	9	7	5	5	0	43
D&T Paper and Boards	4	9	17	13	17	17	17	4	0	0	23
D&T Textiles	9	12	21	9	33	3	9	3	0	0	33
D&T Timbers	2	4	18	36	13	20	4	2	0	0	45
Dance	23	14	14	18	23	5	5	0	0	0	22
Drama	0	16	16	26	18	18	5	0	0	0	38
Drama Tech	0	6	11	50	17	6	6	6	0	0	18
Engineering	2	11	30	26	9	2	11	0	7	2	46
English Language	6	12	14	24	24	11	9	1	0	0	289
English Literature	10	8	18	19	25	10	9	1	0	0	285
Food preparation and nutrition	6	17	11	17	31	11	8	0	0	0	36
French	16	6	17	5	32	15	10	1	0	0	103
Geography	15	22	21	15	12	10	4	1	0	0	169
German	19	19	16	22	16	3	6	0	0	0	32
History	6	11	24	17	18	8	9	6	2	0	113
Maths	9	16	16	21	19	12	5	1	1	0	288
Media Studies	4	9	14	19	19	19	12	2	2	0	57
Music GCSE	25	10	5	25	15	0	20	0	0	0	20
PE	2	11	15	19	9	15	26	4	0	0	47
Physics	34	20	20	18	7	2	0	0	0	0	106
Polish	50	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Religious Studies	25	31	21	15	4	4	0	0	0	0	48
Spanish	6	20	19	12	29	9	6	0	0	0	69