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Hartland High School

Secondary Ages 11-18 589 pupils Reading
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Hartland High School is an academy sponsor led in Reading for pupils aged 11 to 18. It has 589 pupils on roll. In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 37.8, and 36% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE. Absence is higher than at almost all other secondary schools, with 17.5% of sessions missed in 2024/25 against 8.4% nationally, and 44% of pupils were persistently absent. Suspensions are common here, with 27.1 in every 100 pupils suspended at least once in 2024/25 (nationally, 7.3).

GCSE results: 2026.

Type Secondary / Academy sponsor led
Age Range 11-18
Religion Does not apply
Address 125 Hartland Road
Reading
RG2 8AF
Reference Number 151631

General Makeup

Number of pupils 589
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 65.37%
Girls: 34.63%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 45.2%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 27.5%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 21.9

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 54 21 75
8 59 36 95
9 100 48 148
10 78 36 114
11 56 52 108
12 11 5 16
13 27 6 33

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 43.6%
White, Other 7.3%
Asian, Other 7.1%
African 6.6%
White & Black (Caribbean) 6.3%
Indian 4.9%
Mixed, Other 4.2%
Pakistani 3.6%
Unclassified 3.2%
White & Black (African) 2.2%
White & Asian 2%
Caribbean 1%
Chinese 0.5%
Irish 0.2%

Overall Ofsted Rating
Last Report Date This school has not had an inspection yet.
Date Report

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education

Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
37.8

GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 36.2%
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 48.6%
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Year 7 admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 26 4
Third Preference 14 0
From another Local Authority 2 0

Previous years

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Hartland High School had 702 pupils for 1,100 places. 398 places (36.2%) were unfilled.

Year 7 intake in the “Reading Secondary East” planning area

Reading counted 453 Year 7 pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 515 in 2031–32, up 14%.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Hartland High School attended 82.5% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 44.4% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

2025
Authorised absence 8.7%
Unauthorised absence 8.8%
Severely absent pupils 13.8%

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 27.1% of pupils at Hartland High School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 2 pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

2025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 129.9
Permanent exclusions 2

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Hartland High School had 15.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7).

Pupils per teacher

2026
Pupils per adult 10.5
Teachers who left state teaching –
Teachers who took any sick leave –
Sick days per teacher –

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 17.5% of pupils at Hartland High School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 4.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Social, emotional and mental health 29 9
Autistic spectrum disorder 24 5
Moderate learning difficulty 15 4
Speech, language and communication needs 12 4
Other difficulty or disability 12 3
Specific learning difficulty 5 3
Vision impairment 3 1
Hearing impairment 1 0
No specialist assessment of need 1 0
Severe learning difficulty 1 0

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

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Hartland High School is part of Greenshaw Learning Trust, which runs 39 schools. The nearest others:

How many pupils does Hartland High School have?

Hartland High School has 589 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hartland High School cover?

Hartland High School for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Hartland High School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 37.8, and 36% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Hartland High School?

Hartland High School is at 125 Hartland Road, Reading, RG2 8AF.

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