Back 2024-25
Highfields School
Upper Lumsdale, Matlock, DE4 5NA
Ofsted: Good
Secondary
Phase
1394
Capacity
11-18
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 47.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 43.1%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 68.3%
- Entering EBacc
- 40.6%
- EBacc APS
- 4.2
- Cohort Size
- 202
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 94.0%
- Not sustained
- 85.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 5.0%
- Employment
- 4.0%
After A-Levels 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 93.0%
- Higher education
- 70.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 7.0%
- Employment
- 14.0%
A-Level Results
2023-24*Data not available for 2024-25 — showing latest available results
C+
Avg A-Level Grade
32.9
Avg Points/Entry
33.2
Best 3 A-Levels
104
A-Level Students
- AAB+ with Facilitating
- 17.3%
- Applied General Avg Points
- 34.7
- 16-18 Cohort
- 222
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1295
- Boys
- 621 (48%)
- Girls
- 674 (52%)
- Capacity
- 1394 (93% full)
- SEND
- 12.4%
- FSM Eligible
- 25.4%
- EAL
- 3.0%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 2.2%
- SEN Support
- 10.3%
Attendance & Absence
2023-24*Data not available for 2024-25 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.9%
- Persistent Absence
- 20.1%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 90.9%
- White Other: 2.3%
- Other: 2.3%
- Mixed Other: 0.8%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.8%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.6%
- Black Caribbean: 0.6%
- Asian Chinese: 0.4%
90.9%
White British
2.3%
White Other
2.3%
Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Upper Lumsdale
Matlock, East Midlands
Administrative
- URN
- 148299
- UKPRN
- 10087314
- Establishment No.
- 4174
- Trust
- EAST MIDLANDS EDUCATION TRUST