Hastings High School

Academy converter·Secondary school Hinckley, Leicestershire·LE10 2QE
Composite score
60.6
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#1,125
National rank
#93
In East Midlands
#14
In Leicestershire
Top 36%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
48.5
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
52%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
69%
% EBacc grade 5+
12%
EBacc average points score
4.19

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
175 first choices, 185 places
First choices per place
0.95
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
400
any preference, for 185 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
1.2620221.0120230.9720240.9520250.952026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Hastings High School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
859
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
14.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
4.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.0%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
20.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.1
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,042
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
95%
168 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
90%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Hastings High School at a glance

Located in Hinckley, Leicestershire, Hastings High School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 859 pupils aged 11 to 16. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 48.5 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 3.5 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 36% of secondary schools nationally.

52% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. 69% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Hastings High School their first choice was offered one of its 185 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.5%. There are about 17.1 pupils per teacher. Hastings High School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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