The School Record

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

Brayton Academy

URN 143138 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · North Yorkshire

Doncaster Road, Selby, YO8 9QS

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, 165 families named Brayton Academy as their first preference, and the school made 217 offers.

That is 0.76 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 21% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 21% 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 0.83 in 2021–2022 and 0.78 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 9 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 165 447 217 0.76
2024 183 442 228 0.80
2023 204 435 208 0.98
2022 128 251 173 0.74
2021 197 308 213 0.92
2020 176 286 182 0.97
2019 130 236 158 0.82
2018 75 146 89 0.84
2017 75 164 91 0.82

“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, 27 November 2024

Standards maintained

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 53.40 - 78.9% 54.7%
2023/24 51.40 0.59
likely between 0.36 and 0.82		 79.2% 49.7%
2022/23 48.50 0.69
likely between 0.42 and 0.97		 72.5% 34.3%

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 58.7 49.4 2.0 7.3 15.8%
2023/24 50.3 42.8 2.8 4.7 14.9%
2022/23 42.0 40.0 1.0 1.0 4.8%
2021/22 35.6 33.6 1.0 1.0 5.6%
2020/21 31.8 28.8 2.0 1.0 9.4%
2019/20 24.8 21.8 1.0 2.0 12.1%

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 (Brayton Academy).

Covers: 569 live postcodes across 142.030 km².

15 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.

North Yorkshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science & Brayton Academy Town area).

Covers: 418 live postcodes across 15.660 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

15 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: Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science. 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 Brayton Academy. 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 Brayton Academy.

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.