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Haygrove School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formSomerset, South West · Bridgwater TA6 7HWTrust: Quantock Education TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,051of 1,070 places
Free school meals
23.2%
Year 11 cohort 2025
224
Ofsted
Good, 16 April 2024Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Haygrove School (URN 123882, until 1 July 2011).

What the data says

Haygrove School has no sixth form. Of the 213 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 32% moved to a sixth form college, 52% to a further education college and 7% started an apprenticeship.

Statistics is unusually popular at GCSE: 40% of the year group took it, against 5% of pupils across England.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 32% of leavers went to one, roughly twice the England rate of 13%.

GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 48.8 against 46.1 across England and 43.5 in Somerset, with 48% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Somerset and England.

Haygrove School
Somerset
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureHaygrove SchoolSomersetEngland
Pupils in the cohort2135,178607,348
Any sustained destination99%92%92%
Stayed in education89%81%86%
— school sixth form4%17%34%
— sixth form college32%17%13%
— further education college52%47%37%
— other education2%2%
Apprenticeship7%6%3%
Employment3%5%3%
No sustained destination1%6%6%
Destination unknown2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureHaygrove SchoolSomersetEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)48.843.546.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths48%40%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths69%61%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects51%31%41%
EBacc average point score4.553.784.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort18%21%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils42.430.534.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils50.247.050.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language9%9%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Literature224100%86%14%21%63%
Mathematics224100%88%16%22%73%
English Language224100%89%23%20%82%
Combined Science19989%65%16%9%72%
History11049%41%30%26%76%
Statistics9040%5%6%20%97%
Geography8538%41%31%25%67%
German5123%5%25%33%86%
Food Preparation and Nutrition4922%8%37%21%90%
French4621%18%15%29%85%
Spanish4018%19%18%27%88%
Fine Art3315%9%27%28%85%
Physics2511%23%36%46%68%
Chemistry2511%23%16%47%68%
Biology2511%23%32%45%76%
Drama198%7%26%27%58%
Music136%5%8%33%69%
Photography125%6%8%19%83%
Computer Science84%13%0%30%38%
Religious Studies84%31%13%32%63%
Polish31%1%84%
Modern Hebrew21%0%83%
Art and Design10%7%24%
Portuguese10%0%50%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Engineering Studies50
Health Studies44
Sports Studies19
Small Business Management18
Sports / Movement Science18

Other secondary schools in Somerset

Ansford Academy

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79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.7

Bishop Fox's School

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88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.9

Brymore Academy

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74% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.0

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.