The Derby High School
Academy · ages 11–16 · no sixth form
In line with Bury across the board — 6th of 13 for average grade in Bury.
Lancs · Bury · one of 14 state secondaries
Summary
The Derby High School sits 6th of 13 state secondaries in Bury for average GCSE grade. 62.1% of its pupils passed both English and maths, in line with the 61.5% managed across Bury. 39.6% reached the stronger grade 5 in both. Subject by subject it is furthest clear of Bury in religious studies, sat by 31% of the year,, and furthest behind in design technology, sat by 23% of the year. Ofsted: No inspection outcome published.
It is an academy, taking ages 11 to 16. 31.3% were entered for the full EBacc, more than the 28.1% entered across Bury, which is a choice about how broad a curriculum to push, and 28.6% took the separate sciences rather than combined. 91.8% of its leavers went on to further education.
Subject comparisons are measured at grade 4 or above against Bury, and count as ahead or behind only where the gap is wider than the year-to-year swing that entry group would produce.
The school·Bury
Inspection
Not yet inspected
Inspected June 2023
- June 2023 Ungraded inspection School remains Good
An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds rather than replacing it.
GCSE · Key stage 4·2024/25
The Derby High School converted to an academy in July 2026 and was given a new reference number. The Department for Education files results against the record a school held when its pupils sat their exams, so these are published under its previous one.
Attainment
After Year 11
92% stayed in education, 2% started an apprenticeship (2022/23 leavers)
GCSE results by subject
2024/25 · share reaching grade 4 or above · a standard pass, the old grade C
Every bar is on the same 0–100% scale, so subjects can be read against each other as well as against the county and England. A dash means the figure does not exist rather than being zero. The county and England lines cover state-funded schools only, the same schools you can browse here, because independent schools sit outside the Department for Education's subject release and outside this site.
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What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- The EBacc
- A combination of subjects rather than a qualification in its own right: English, Maths, the Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography. The figure shows the share of pupils entered for all the EBacc subject areas, so it gives an indication of how widely a school enters pupils for this particular combination of subjects.
- Progress 8
- A measure of how much progress pupils make between the end of primary school and the end of GCSE, rather than simply what grades they achieve. It takes pupils' prior attainment into account, making it useful for comparing schools with different intakes. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because the pupils concerned did not have Key Stage 2 tests that can be used as the normal starting point.
- Percentage points
- The gap between two percentages. A subject going from 30% to 36% has risen six percentage points, though it has risen by a fifth. We write "pp" to keep the two apart.
- Why some subjects say nothing
- A year group is small. Where a gap is no bigger than the swing a different intake would produce, we say the subjects are level rather than dressing chance as a finding. Two kinds of subject carry no share at all: a vocational award has no 9-to-1 grade to report, and some qualifications are not published on the 9-to-1 scale for a given year group, most often community languages sat outside the school's own timetable.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
School details
Radcliffe Road
Redvales
Lancs
Lancashire
BL9 9NH
- Headteacher
- Ms Helen Hubert
- Trust
- Prestolee Multi Academy Trust
- SEND
- 17% on SEN support, 3% with an EHC plan
- Separate sciences
- 29% of the year
- Progress 8
- Not published · last +0.35 in 2023/24
Other schools in Bury
13 schools. Distances are straight-line from this school.
- Bury Church of England High School 0.4 km
- St Gabriel's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy 0.7 km
- Star Radcliffe Academy 2.3 km
- The Elton High School 2.4 km
- Hazel Wood High School 2.5 km
- Unsworth Academy 3.3 km
- Tottington High School 3.8 km
- Philips High School 4.1 km
- Parrenthorn High School 5.1 km
- The Heys School 5.7 km
- Woodhey High School 5.9 km
- Manchester Mesivta School 6.7 km
- St Monica's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy 6.8 km