The School Record

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

Millthorpe School

URN 142648 · Secondary · Academy converter · York

Nunthorpe Avenue, York, YO23 1WF

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, 164 families named Millthorpe School as their first preference, and the school made 203 offers.

That is 0.81 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 27% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 27% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.12 in 2021–2022 and 0.79 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 9 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 164 428 203 0.81
2024 161 472 209 0.77
2023 204 472 205 1.00
2022 275 545 233 1.18
2021 222 503 210 1.06
2020 248 506 212 1.17
2019 242 526 212 1.14
2018 230 544 211 1.09
2017 214 473 212 1.01

“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), 12 March 2024

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 9

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 53.20 - 78.8% 41.9%
2023/24 49.40 0.23
likely between 0.03 and 0.42
71.3% 19.6%
2022/23 49.90 -0.11
likely between -0.30 and 0.09
69.9% 13.4%

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 49.0 45.0 0.0 4.0 8.2%
2023/24 49.6 39.8 3.0 6.8 19.8%
2022/23 54.8 38.6 7.4 8.8 29.6%
2021/22 59.1 46.8 6.0 6.3 20.8%
2020/21 60.7 54.3 0.0 6.4 10.5%
2019/20 58.7 56.5 0.8 1.4 3.7%

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: 210

Places offered: 209

2024 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 210

Places offered: 210

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2023 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 212

Places offered: 212

2022 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 235

Places offered: 237

2021 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 212

Places offered: 212

2020 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 212

Places offered: 214

2019 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 212

Places offered: 212

2018 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 212

Places offered: 212

2017 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 212

Places offered: 212

2016 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 204

Places offered: 204

2015 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 204

Places offered: 204

2014 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 204

Places offered: 204

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2013 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 204

Places offered: 170

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2012 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 204

Places offered: 202

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

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

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment152
Distance45
Sibling6
Social or medical need6
All the children counted here209

2024 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment167
Distance33
Sibling5
Social or medical need2
All the children counted here207

2023 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment126
Catchment Sibling50
Distance19
Social or medical need9
Sibling8
All the children counted here212

2022 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment227
Social or medical need8
Sibling2
All the children counted here237

2021 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment196
Sibling8
Distance4
Social or medical need4
All the children counted here212

2020 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment210
Social or medical need4
All the children counted here214

2019 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment176
Sibling28
Social or medical need5
Distance3
All the children counted here212

2018 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment167
Sibling24
Distance17
Social or medical need4
All the children counted here212

2017 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment158
Distance29
Sibling23
Social or medical need2
All the children counted here212

2016 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment133
Distance49
Sibling18
Social or medical need4
All the children counted here204

2015 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment139
Distance46
Sibling18
Social or medical need1
All the children counted here204

2014 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment122
Distance52
Sibling20
Social or medical need3
All the children counted here197

2013 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment122
Distance32
Sibling11
Social or medical need2
All the children counted here167

2012 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment139
Distance42
Sibling18
Social or medical need2
All the children counted here201

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 Millthorpe 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.