Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England Academy
URN 136617 · Secondary · Academy converter · York
Hull Road, York, YO10 5ZA
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, 316 families named Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England Academy as their first preference, and the school made 295 offers.
That is 1.07 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 69% 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 0.99 in 2021–2022 and 1.06 in 2024–2025.
| Intake | 1st preferences | All preferences | Offers made | 1st prefs per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 316 | 550 | 295 | 1.07 |
| 2024 | 307 | 562 | 293 | 1.05 |
| 2023 | 284 | 513 | 292 | 0.97 |
| 2022 | 320 | 522 | 301 | 1.06 |
| 2021 | 271 | 493 | 294 | 0.92 |
| 2020 | 300 | 500 | 297 | 1.01 |
| 2019 | 312 | 476 | 298 | 1.05 |
| 2018 | 285 | 464 | 298 | 0.96 |
| 2017 | 294 | 444 | 297 | 0.99 |
| 2016 | 259 | 406 | 274 | 0.95 |
| 2015 | 212 | 338 | 239 | 0.89 |
| 2014 | 219 | 331 | 214 | 1.02 |
“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 report card (current framework), 13 January 2026
Safeguarding: Met
Inclusion: Strong standard
Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard
Achievement: Strong standard
Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard
Sixth form / post-16: Strong standard
Leadership and governance: Strong standard
The current framework does not award an overall grade.
Ofsted's report for this school
Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 12 October 2021
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding
Quality of education: Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding
Personal development: Outstanding
Leadership and management: Outstanding
Early years: 9
Sixth form / post-16: 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.
| Year | Attainment 8 | Progress 8 | Grade 4+ English & maths | EBacc grade 4+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 56.70 | - | 81.5% | 40.1% |
| 2023/24 | 50.10 | 0.24 likely between 0.07 and 0.40 |
73.1% | 38.9% |
| 2022/23 | 53.70 | 0.50 likely between 0.33 and 0.67 |
78.4% | 39.7% |
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 | 102.9 | 85.1 | 5.4 | 12.4 | 17.3% |
| 2023/24 | 111.7 | 93.3 | 6.0 | 12.4 | 16.5% |
| 2022/23 | 107.2 | 101.8 | 0.0 | 5.4 | 5.0% |
| 2021/22 | 103.8 | 90.4 | 5.6 | 7.8 | 12.9% |
| 2020/21 | 99.1 | 90.1 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 9.1% |
| 2019/20 | 100.0 | 88.0 | 3.0 | 9.0 | 12.0% |
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.
2025 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 300
Places offered: 300
2024 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 300
Places offered: 300
2023 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 300
Places offered: 300
More children wanted a place than there were places: yes
2022 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 310
Places offered: 310
2021 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 300
Places offered: 299
More children wanted a place than there were places: yes
2020 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 270
Places offered: 300
2019 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 270
Places offered: 300
2018 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 300
Places offered: 300
2017 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 300
Places offered: 300
2016 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 270
Places offered: 280
2015 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 243
Places offered: 243
More children wanted a place than there were places: yes
2014 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 216
Places offered: 216
2013 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 216
Places offered: 201
2012 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 162
Places offered: 164
How the places were shared out
Schools that get more applications than they have places have to choose. Each school has a list of rules, and it works down the list until the places run out. York publishes how many children got in under each rule. These are York's own names for its own rules, so they do not mean the same thing at a school in another area.
2025 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 132 |
| Sibling | 100 |
| Religion | 37 |
| Distance | 16 |
| Social or medical need | 14 |
| Other | 1 |
| All the children counted here | 300 |
2024 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 136 |
| Sibling | 95 |
| Distance | 28 |
| Religion | 27 |
| Social or medical need | 13 |
| Other | 1 |
| All the children counted here | 300 |
2023 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 118 |
| Sibling | 91 |
| Distance | 44 |
| Religion | 26 |
| Social or medical need | 11 |
| Other | 10 |
| All the children counted here | 300 |
2022 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 124 |
| Sibling | 110 |
| Distance | 32 |
| Religion | 24 |
| Social or medical need | 19 |
| Other | 1 |
| All the children counted here | 310 |
2021 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Sibling | 110 |
| Catchment | 108 |
| Distance | 43 |
| Religion | 18 |
| Social or medical need | 10 |
| All the children counted here | 289 |
2020 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 153 |
| Sibling | 90 |
| Religion | 35 |
| Distance | 16 |
| Social or medical need | 5 |
| Other | 1 |
| All the children counted here | 300 |
2019 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 152 |
| Sibling | 96 |
| Religion | 25 |
| Distance | 20 |
| Social or medical need | 7 |
| All the children counted here | 300 |
2018 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 155 |
| Sibling | 83 |
| Distance | 35 |
| Religion | 23 |
| Social or medical need | 4 |
| All the children counted here | 300 |
2017 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 136 |
| Sibling | 88 |
| Distance | 44 |
| Religion | 26 |
| Social or medical need | 6 |
| All the children counted here | 300 |
2016 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 115 |
| Sibling | 81 |
| Distance | 49 |
| Religion | 27 |
| Social or medical need | 8 |
| All the children counted here | 280 |
2015 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 101 |
| Sibling | 53 |
| Distance | 52 |
| Religion | 31 |
| Social or medical need | 4 |
| All the children counted here | 241 |
2014 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 108 |
| Sibling | 46 |
| Religion | 33 |
| Distance | 25 |
| Social or medical need | 4 |
| All the children counted here | 216 |
2013 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 101 |
| Sibling | 62 |
| Religion | 26 |
| Distance | 10 |
| Social or medical need | 2 |
| All the children counted here | 201 |
2012 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Sibling | 54 |
| Catchment | 39 |
| Distance | 33 |
| Religion | 32 |
| Social or medical need | 6 |
| All the children counted here | 164 |
A rule that let nobody in that year is not listed. Some children are given a place at a school they did not ask for, because they have to go somewhere, and no rule applies to them.
Where it is
The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England Academy.
- Fulford School: 2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-west, York
- Millthorpe School: 3.3 km (2.0 miles) west, York
- Huntington School: 4.5 km (2.8 miles) north, York
- Vale of York Academy: 4.7 km (2.9 miles) north-west, York
- Joseph Rowntree School: 5.4 km (3.4 miles) north, York
- York High School: 5.8 km (3.6 miles) west, York
Nearby and related
- Other schools near Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England Academy
- All schools in York
- Schools in the YO10 postcode district
- What data we hold
- This page as JSON: the same figures, for software that would rather not read a web page
Where these figures come from
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase and address
Retrieved 2 September 2026 - Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2014 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - York: offer-day statistics. Admissions Summary Allocated, secondary 2025, City of York Council
Retrieved 5 September 2026 - York: admission rule breakdown. How places were shared out, 2012 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 5 September 2026 - Department for Education: key stage 4 performance. Attainment 8, Progress 8 and EBacc, by school
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school workforce in England. Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census
Retrieved 4 September 2026
This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.