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

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	2
Art - Graphics	18
Art - 3D Studies	9
Art - Fine	24
Biology	106
BTEC Tech Award in Enterprise	17
Business	58
Chinese	3
Chemistry	107
Combined Science	183
Computer Science	43
Design and Technology	101
Dance	22
Drama	56
Engineering	46
English Language	290
English Literature	287
Food Technology	36
French	104
Geography	169
German	32
History	114
Mathematics	290
Media Studies	57
Music	20
PE	47
Physics	106
Polish	2
Portuguese	1
Religious Studies	48
Russain	1
Spanish	71
Turkish	1