Academy · Dorset
The Thomas Hardye School
- Secondary
- Ages 13–18
- Sixth form
Term dates
Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Dorset council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
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How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 4 February 2025. No overall grade was given (Ofsted stopped giving one in September 2024).
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Sixth form
- Good
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Academy
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 13–18
- Pupils
- 2014 (capacity 2138)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Academy trust
- WESSEX MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Phone
- 01305266064
- Address
- Queen's Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 2ET
- Website
- ths.wessex.ac
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.