Thrybergh Academy

Academy converter·Secondary school Rotherham·S65 4BP
Composite score
36.0
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#3,165
National rank
#306
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#16
In Rotherham
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
28.8
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
13%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
30%
% EBacc grade 5+
5%
EBacc average points score
2.41

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
64 first choices, 83 places
First choices per place
0.77
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
104
any preference, for 83 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8120220.7920230.8020240.7420250.772026

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

Every child who put Thrybergh Academy 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
544
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
60.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
8.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
22.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
7.2%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
16.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
42.0%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,322
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
80%
91 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
69%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
8%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Thrybergh Academy

Thrybergh Academy is a secondary school in Rotherham, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 544 pupils aged 11 to 16 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 28.8 — well below the national average (national average: 46). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

13% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 30% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Thrybergh Academy their first choice was offered one of its 83 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 80% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 16.4%. There are about 16.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 60% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. If you are considering Thrybergh Academy, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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