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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 Good November 2022
Attainment 8 41.1 in the lower half nationally
Chance of a place 100% of first choices offered
Local deprivation 9/10 less deprived

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

Current published outcome
Good
Last overall grade in this dataset
Good
Days since inspection
1,402 days
Framework era
Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

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

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

About as many first choices as places. Of the 263 families who named this school as their first choice, 100% were offered a place.

Places offered
279

for entry into Year 7

Named it first choice
263
First choices per place
0.94

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place
100%

England 88.5%

Demand has been broadly steady over three years.

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

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%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
2

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
5

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
0
Busiest road nearby
U

4,656 vehicles a day (2009)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
15

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Not published

No station within 5km

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

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 84.4%

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 area around the school

9/10 Deprivation decile

Among the least deprived fifth of England.

10/10 Child poverty decile

Among the least deprived fifth of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£269,997

postcode sector S42 6 · 492 sales

Typical range
£212,125 to £325,960

middle half of sales

Detached
£319,950
Semi-detached
£215,000
Terraced
£198,725

Homes around this school are close to the England average.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
29%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
17%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
9%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
19%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
42%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
88%

England 62.7%

Social housing
6%

England 17%

Privately rented
5%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
39%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
17%

England 22.5%

No car
10%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for North East Derbyshire 011F and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

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
Headteacher
Headteacher: Andrew Knowles
Opened as this establishment
1 October 2019
Register status
Open
Local authority
Derbyshire
Ward
Tupton
Constituency
North East Derbyshire
URN
146099

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Year 7

1.10 2020/21: 0.91 first choices per place2021/22: 0.91 first choices per place2022/23: 0.98 first choices per place2023/24: 0.97 first choices per place2024/25: 0.98 first choices per place2025/26: 0.92 first choices per place2026/27: 0.94 first choices per place2020202220242026
All 7 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2020/21 251 228 0.91 100%
2021/22 264 240 0.91 100%
2022/23 268 262 0.98 100%
2023/24 281 272 0.97 100%
2024/25 244 239 0.98 100%
2025/26 248 228 0.92 100%
2026/27 279 263 0.94 100%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8DistanceCompare
Outwood Academy Hasland HallAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 47.5 -0.17-0.39 to 0.04 · not a win 2.5 mi
Parkside Community SchoolAcademy converter Report card 2026 41 -0.39-0.64 to -0.14 3.5 mi
Tibshelf Community SchoolCommunity school Report card 2026 44.2 -0.14-0.37 to 0.09 · not a win 3.8 mi
Brookfield Community SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 50.8 0.350.13 to 0.56 4.3 mi
Outwood Academy NewboldAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 48.9 0.380.17 to 0.59 5 mi
St Mary's Catholic High School, A Catholic Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 59.4 0.500.30 to 0.70 5.2 mi
Springwell Community CollegeAcademy converter No overall grade 37.9 -0.56-0.78 to -0.35 5.5 mi
Highfields SchoolAcademy converter No overall grade 47 0.05-0.14 to 0.25 · not a win 5.8 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 41.1
Median of its 12 closest peers 40.5
Derbyshire average 40.3
England average 47

Attainment 8 score. This school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8Compare
Cornwallis AcademyAcademy sponsor led Maidstone Good 2023 38.6 -0.33-0.52 to -0.13
The Academy at Shotton HallAcademy converter Peterlee Outstanding 2024 52.2 0.580.39 to 0.77
Workington AcademyAcademy sponsor led Workington Good 2022 40.5 -0.19-0.40 to 0.03 · not a win
Acklam Grange SchoolAcademy converter Middlesbrough Good 2022 48.5 0.330.16 to 0.49
The King Edmund SchoolAcademy converter Rochford Good 2024 36.3 -0.83-1.01 to -0.66
Lynn Grove AcademyAcademy converter Great Yarmouth Good 2023 44.2 0.17-0.02 to 0.35 · not a win
Eckington SchoolAcademy converter Sheffield Report card 2026 40.6 -0.36-0.55 to -0.18
St George's Church of England Foundation SchoolFoundation school Broadstairs No overall grade 37.7 -0.42-0.61 to -0.22
Homewood School and Sixth Form CentreAcademy converter Tenterden Good 2023 39.7 -0.35-0.51 to -0.19
The Abbey SchoolAcademy converter Faversham Report card 2026 35.5 -0.56-0.76 to -0.36
Paignton AcademyAcademy converter Paignton No overall grade 36.9 -0.63-0.82 to -0.45
The Heath SchoolAcademy converter Runcorn No overall grade 42.5 -0.27-0.45 to -0.09

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 146099; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 30 November 2022
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Progress 8DfE performance tables2023/24Exact URN; confidence interval retained
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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