How hard is it to get into Huntington School?

In the 2025 intake Huntington School received 264 first preferences and made 230 offers. That is 1.15 first preferences for every place. It describes demand. It does not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

Does Huntington School have a catchment area?

We hold no published admission zone for this school. That is not the same as an address being outside one. We cannot say either way.

Huntington School

URN 121673 · Secondary · Community school · York

Huntington Road, York, YO32 9WT

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 264 families named Huntington School as their first preference, and the school made 230 offers.

That is 1.15 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 77% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.1 in 2021–2022 and 1.1 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake	1st preferences	All preferences	Offers made	1st prefs per place
2025	264	477	230	1.15
2024	239	484	229	1.04
2023	228	422	234	0.97
2022	259	469	234	1.11
2021	259	497	237	1.09
2020	268	485	236	1.14
2019	255	515	236	1.08
2018	266	512	239	1.11
2017	256	513	239	1.07
2016	263	550	238	1.11
2015	303	487	243	1.25
2014	254	450	238	1.07

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 29 November 2023

School remains Outstanding

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
Year	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc grade 4+
2024/25	48.20	-	69.9%	38.6%
2023/24	48.90	0.06 likely between -0.12 and 0.25	71.8%	33.3%
2022/23	48.60	0.10 likely between -0.08 and 0.29	68.6%	41.1%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census year	Teachers (FTE)	Still there a year later	Moved to another state school	Left state schools	Left in total
2024/25	92.9	83.8	3.6	5.5	9.8%
2023/24	99.4	91.9	2.8	4.7	7.5%
2022/23	89.7	83.9	1.0	4.8	6.5%
2021/22	85.9	75.7	4.0	6.2	11.9%
2020/21	89.9	80.8	1.0	8.1	10.1%
2019/20	90.3	82.7	3.4	4.2	8.4%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

How places were allocated

York publishes these figures on national offer day, the day families are told which school their child has been given. It is the only place that says how the school chose between the children who applied.