Arrow Vale High School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 843 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.8
Academy sponsor led
Tenbury High Ormiston Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 453of 475 places
- Free school meals
- 17.2%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 83
- Ofsted
- Good, 8 May 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Tenbury High School (URN 116950, until 12 August 2014).
What the data says
Tenbury High Ormiston Academy has no sixth form. Of the 84 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 25% moved to a sixth form college, 58% to a further education college and 6% started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 39.9 against 46.1 across England and 44.2 in Worcestershire, with 34% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Computer Science is unusually popular at GCSE: 27% of the year group took it, against 13% of pupils across England.
As an 11–16 school, Tenbury High Ormiston Academy is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.
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 Worcestershire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Worcestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 84 | 6,012 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 93% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 83% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 31% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 25% | 17% | 13% |
| — further education college | 58% | 36% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 6% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Worcestershire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 39.9 | 44.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 34% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 47% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 22% | 41% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.48 | 3.92 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 18% | 22% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 35.9 | 30.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 40.7 | 48.0 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 4% | 10% | 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.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 83 | 100% | 89% | 5% | 20% | 57% |
| English Literature | 83 | 100% | 86% | 7% | 21% | 59% |
| Mathematics | 83 | 100% | 88% | 8% | 22% | 59% |
| Combined Science | 55 | 66% | 65% | 4% | 9% | 44% |
| Geography | 53 | 64% | 41% | 11% | 25% | 60% |
| History | 30 | 36% | 41% | 10% | 26% | 50% |
| Physics | 27 | 33% | 23% | 19% | 46% | 85% |
| Biology | 27 | 33% | 23% | 22% | 45% | 78% |
| Business Studies | 27 | 33% | 18% | 0% | 20% | 37% |
| Chemistry | 27 | 33% | 23% | 19% | 47% | 81% |
| Computer Science | 22 | 27% | 13% | 14% | 30% | 59% |
| Physical Education | 19 | 23% | 11% | 0% | 24% | 53% |
| Design and Technology | 18 | 22% | 11% | 0% | 23% | 17% |
| French | 17 | 20% | 18% | 6% | 29% | 29% |
| Art and Design | 15 | 18% | 7% | 7% | 24% | 67% |
| Drama | 11 | 13% | 7% | 0% | 27% | 36% |
| Religious Studies | 9 | 11% | 31% | 11% | 32% | 56% |
| German | 5 | 6% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 18 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 16 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Worcestershire
Baxter College
Academy converter · sixth form · 766 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 36.6
Bishop Perowne CofE College
Academy converter · 1,155 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.3
Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College
Voluntary aided school · 1,036 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 53.1
Christopher Whitehead Language College
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,580 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.8
Droitwich Spa High School and Sixth Form Centre
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,290 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.1
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.