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Secondary school in Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Tupton Hall School

Station New Road, Old Tupton, Chesterfield, S42 6LG

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01246863127

Ofsted

Goodas at 30 November 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 30 November 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

41.1 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

31% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

60% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

44% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the lower half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.51confidence interval -0.69 to -0.32

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C
Average points per entry
31

England average 32.3

A level students
128

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1581
Places
1821
How full
87% full — 1581 of 1821 places taken
Girls / boys
777 / 804
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
28%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
37%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
88%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
78%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
37%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
233

After sixth form

Went to university
49%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
12%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
139

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

15% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
59%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
153

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for North East Derbyshire 011F, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
29%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
17%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
88%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
6%

England 17%

Households with no car
10%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
REDHILL ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Andrew Knowles
Local authority
Derbyshire
Ward
Tupton
Constituency
North East Derbyshire
URN
146099

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Outwood Academy Hasland HallAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 47.5 2.5 mi
Parkside Community SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 41 3.5 mi
Tibshelf Community SchoolCommunity school No grade 44.2 3.8 mi
Brookfield Community SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 50.8 4.3 mi
Outwood Academy NewboldAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 48.9 5 mi
St Mary's Catholic High School, A Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 59.4 5.2 mi
Springwell Community CollegeAcademy converter No grade 37.9 5.5 mi
Highfields SchoolAcademy converter No grade 47 5.8 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Madeley AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 47.2
St Aidan's Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 40
Bedford AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 42.8
Willenhall E-ACT AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 34.7
Outwood Academy ShaftonAcademy sponsor led No grade 42
The Cornerstone AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 41
Winifred Holtby AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 36.4
Thomas Middlecott AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.1

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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