Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in York
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry455 applications · 185 places offered · 169 named it first
- 2026 2.5; York median median 2.0
- 2025 2.1; York median median 1.9
- 2024 2.3; York median median 1.9
- 2023 2.3; York median median 1.8
- 2022 2.3; York median median 1.7
- 2021 2.4; York median median 1.8
- 2020 2.4; York median median 1.7
- 2019 2.5; York median median 1.8
- 2018 2.6; York median median 2.0
- 2017 2.2; York median median 2.0
- 2016 2.2; York median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2015 2.0; York median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.9; York median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- York median
Dashed bars: as Millthorpe School (URN 121706), the previous school.
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 185 | 455 | 2.5 | 169 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2025 | 203 | 428 | 2.1 | 164 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2024 | 209 | 472 | 2.3 | 161 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2023 | 205 | 472 | 2.3 | 204 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 233 | 545 | 2.3 | 275 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2021 | 210 | 503 | 2.4 | 222 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2020 | 212 | 506 | 2.4 | 248 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2019 | 212 | 526 | 2.5 | 242 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2018 | 211 | 544 | 2.6 | 230 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2017 | 212 | 473 | 2.2 | 214 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2016 * | 203 | 446 | 2.2 | 194 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2015 * | 203 | 409 | 2.0 | 196 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2014 * | 200 | 374 | 1.9 | 167 | 0.84 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 203 | 50.2 | 55% | 73% | – |
| 2024/25 | 198 | 53.2 | 63% | 79% | – |
| 2023/24 | 209 | 49.4 | 54% | 71% | +0.23 |
| 2022/23 | 209 | 49.9 | 50% | 70% | −0.11 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Millthorpe SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.5applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- 0.4 km · YorkOutstanding20243.1applications per place 55.1Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · YorkOutstanding20232.2applications per place 59.7Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · YorkGood20221.9applications per place 38.8Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · YorkStandards maintained20251.4applications per place 42.7Attainment 8
- 20262.0applications per place 52.7Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · York20262.0applications per place 50.4Attainment 8
- 4.9 km · YorkRemains Outstanding20232.3applications per place 49.9Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · YorkRemains Good20222.0applications per place 46.0Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 142648 · 816/4229
- Trust
- Excel Learning Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,060 pupils · 1,022 on roll
- Free school meals
- 16.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2016
- Replaced
- Millthorpe School (URN 121706)
- Address
- Nunthorpe Avenue, York, YO23 1WF
- Local authority
- York
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources