Community special school

Thomasson Memorial School

Mixed · ages 2–16Bolton, North West · Bolton BL3 3LASchool website
Pupils on roll
80
Free school meals
36.7%
Year 11 cohort 2025
14
Ofsted
School remains Good, 27 March 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

The Department for Education has not published where Thomasson Memorial School’s Year 11 leavers went next (the cohort is too small to report), so this page relies on the school’s results and subjects.

Thomasson Memorial School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 15.3, 7% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Bolton and England.

The Department for Education has not published destination figures for this school (new school, small cohort or not a state-funded school).

GCSE results 2025

MeasureThomasson Memorial SchoolBoltonEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)15.345.746.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths7%44%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths14%65%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%33%41%
EBacc average point score0.673.954.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort71%32%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils36.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils49.850.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language57%29%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language857%89%0%20%25%
English Literature857%86%0%21%50%
Mathematics857%88%0%22%25%
Physics857%23%0%46%75%
Fine Art429%9%28%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Computer Appreciation / Introduction5
Health Studies4

Other secondary schools in Bolton

Canon Slade School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,724 pupils

91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 53.9

Essa Academy

Academy sponsor led · 1,055 pupils

91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 53.0

Harper Green School

Academy converter · 1,070 pupils

77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.8

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.