Outcomes are excellent at Hagley with a GCSE Progress 8 score in 2019 of +0.35 and English literature and language, maths, science and history in the top 20% of all schools nationally for attainment.

[2] The sixth form enjoys a high rate of success, with half of all candidates achieving grades AAB or higher.

[4] In 1969, in the building which would later become Lab 5, a full-scale replica of a Bristol Scout aeroplane was built by five pupils and their history teacher.

The school and sixth form field competitive teams in rugby, cricket, football, gymnastics, basketball, and netball.

On the last day of sixth form, it is customary for leavers to drink at The Station Inn pub in full school uniform, moving on to The Lyttleton Arms and then into the nearby town of Stourbridge later in the evening.

The school suffered a tragedy on 18 November 1993 when a minibus transporting 14 pupils home from a proms concert in London collided with a maintenance lorry on the M40 motorway near Warwick.

Several memorials were put in place in the school and local area, including a stained glass window in the entrance foyer; several charities were also formed.

One of the consequences of the crash was the launch of a national campaign to improve safety and driving standards for Passenger Carrying Vehicles (PCVs).

The huge number of letters which were sent to the school in the weeks after this event were placed for safekeeping in the care of Worcestershire County Archives in 2012.