Back 2024-25
Downlands Community School
Dale Avenue, Hassocks, BN6 8LP
Ofsted: Good
Secondary
Phase
1200
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 57.3
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 66.2%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 85.7%
- Entering EBacc
- 75.8%
- EBacc APS
- 5.3
- Cohort Size
- 231
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 97.0%
- Not sustained
- 93.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 1.0%
- Employment
- 3.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1250
- Boys
- 632 (51%)
- Girls
- 618 (49%)
- Capacity
- 1200 (104% full)
- SEND
- 22.6%
- FSM Eligible
- 8.3%
- EAL
- 4.0%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.0%
- SEN Support
- 20.6%
Attendance & Absence
2023-24*Data not available for 2024-25 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.7%
- Persistent Absence
- 19.9%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 83.1%
- White Other: 5.2%
- Other: 5.2%
- Mixed Other: 1.9%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.2%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.8%
- Black African: 0.8%
- Gypsy/Roma: 0.3%
83.1%
White British
5.2%
White Other
5.2%
Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Dale Avenue
Hassocks, South East
Administrative
- URN
- 126087
- UKPRN
- 10015265
- Establishment No.
- 4105