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Hastings High School
Secondary · Mixed · Ages 11–16 · Academy
St Catherine's Close, Burbage, Hinckley LE10 2QE · hastings.leics.sch.uk · 01455 239414
On the mapSearch near LE10 2QE
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · May 2023
- GCSEs, 2024/25
- 48.5
- average Attainment 8 score. Leicestershire 46.2, England 46
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Year 7, September 2026
- Pupils
- 890
- 90 over 800 places · 111%
- Local authority
- Leicestershire
- Sixth form
- No
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 15.5%
- First language not English
- 4.3%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Hastings High School
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Year 7 in September 2026, 175 families put the school first and 185 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Year 7 | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 185 | 175 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 189 | 179 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 182 | 177 | 1 | 99% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 174 | 176 | 1▲ | 96% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 164 | 206 | 1.3▲ | 79% |
Results
In 2024/25 the average Attainment 8 score at GCSE was 48.5, and 52.5% of pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths. Across Leicestershire it was 46.2, and across England 46.
GCSE results
Attainment 8
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| ▲48.5 | 46.0 | ||
| ▲52.5% | 45.4% | ||
| ▲69.4% | 64.8% | ||
| ▼14.4% | 40.5% | ||
| ●4.19 | 4.09 |
Where Year 11 leavers went
| Left in 2023/24 | Since 2021/22 | |
|---|---|---|
| School sixth form | 30.6 | +7.2 |
| Sixth form college | 21.4 | −6.4 |
| Further education | 34.1 | −1.3 |
| Other education | 0.6 | −0.7 |
| Apprenticeship | 5.2 | +1.4 |
| Employment | 1.2 | −0.1 |
| Not in a lasting destination | 5.2 | +0.1 |
| Activity not captured | 1.7 | −0.2 |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 24 May 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Hastings High School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 23 May 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2017
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 120250), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Nov 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Good Safeguarding Effective Nov 2010Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 120250)
What parents said
82% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (113 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 82%
- Replies
- 113
- 13% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 81% who raised concerns
based on the 32% who had a child bullied
based on 24 parents (21%) with SEND