The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Skipton Girls' High School

URN 136664 · Secondary · Academy converter · North Yorkshire

Gargrave Road, Skipton, BD23 1QL

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, 173 families named Skipton Girls' High School as their first preference, and the school made 119 offers.

That is 1.45 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 91% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 91% of comparable schools 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 1.3 in 2021–2022 and 1.33 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 173 238 119 1.45
2024 119 200 98 1.21
2023 178 242 144 1.24
2022 152 215 116 1.31
2021 149 210 116 1.28
2020 154 192 116 1.33
2019 171 214 115 1.49
2018 144 204 144 1.00
2017 152 203 137 1.11
2016 146 190 116 1.26
2015 125 152 114 1.10
2014 129 165 110 1.17

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 21 September 2022

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: Good

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)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 69.70 - 99.1% 82.6%
2023/24 66.90 0.45
likely between 0.18 and 0.71		 97.3% 83.0%
2022/23 68.70 0.62
likely between 0.38 and 0.86		 97.8% 82.0%

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 yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 49.1 40.6 1.2 7.4 17.5%
2023/24 49.9 45.5 1.0 3.4 8.8%
2022/23 49.0 45.7 2.4 0.9 6.7%
2021/22 52.3 45.5 3.0 3.8 13.0%
2020/21 52.0 46.3 1.0 4.7 11.0%
2019/20 52.4 48.4 1.0 3.0 7.6%

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

North Yorkshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Skipton Girls' High School & The Skipton Academy & Ermysted's Grammar School).

Covers: 1,011 live postcodes across 186.993 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Ermysted's Grammar School and The Skipton Academy. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

Shared with: Ermysted's Grammar School, The Skipton Academy. The council publishes one area for these schools together, so the same streets belong to all of them.

North Yorkshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Skipton Girls' High School & Upper Wharfedale School & Ermysted's Grammar School).

Covers: 336 live postcodes across 442.507 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Ermysted's Grammar School and Upper Wharfedale School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

3 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Shared with: Ermysted's Grammar School, Upper Wharfedale School. The council publishes one area for these schools together, so the same streets belong to all of them.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Skipton Girls' High School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Skipton Girls' High School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

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.