Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy, Dewsbury

In 2026, pupils at Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.1, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.2 in Kirklees and 47 across England.

45% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 46% in Kirklees and 47% in England.

That is up from 43.6 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.3: pupils made above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 37.3, against 49.1 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 11.8 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 24 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and Business Studies.

For September 2026 entry, 164 families put Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy as their first choice and 232 named it as one of their preferences, for 172 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 3 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy are Ossett Academy and Sixth Form College (1.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 49.8); Manor Croft Academy (2.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.9); St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy (2.6 miles, Inadequate, Attainment 8 34.9); and Westborough High School (2.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 42.1).

Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy is one of 9 schools run by Share Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.3 in 2024/25.

Of the 177 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 89% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 45% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

34.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 49.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Asian (55%) and White British (35%).

Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy has a resourced provision for autism: 24 places, 24 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Ravensthorpe Rail Station, about 1.9 miles away in a straight line.

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Thornhill Academy, 110 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 3rd decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 69 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, criminal damage and arson and other crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Kirklees (153).

In 2024/25, Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy issued 234 suspensions, 25.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 4 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Thornhill Community Academy, A Share Academy are Thornhill Junior and Infant School (0.2 miles), Overthorpe CofE Academy (0.7 miles), Middlestown Primary Academy (1.1 miles) and Thornhill Lees Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant and Nursery School (1.2 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.