How hard is it to get into Vale of York Academy?

In the 2025 intake Vale of York Academy received 131 first preferences and made 143 offers. That is 0.92 first preferences for every place. It describes demand. It does not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

Does Vale of York Academy 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.

Vale of York Academy

URN 143864 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · York

Rawcliffe Drive, York, YO30 6ZS

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, 131 families named Vale of York Academy as their first preference, and the school made 143 offers.

That is 0.92 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 41% 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 0.94 in 2021–2022 and 0.95 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 9 intake years
Intake	1st preferences	All preferences	Offers made	1st prefs per place
2025	131	187	143	0.92
2024	145	199	148	0.98
2023	116	164	146	0.79
2022	135	183	150	0.90
2021	158	230	160	0.99
2020	112	168	144	0.78
2019	132	193	146	0.90
2018	102	167	128	0.80
2017	91	161	113	0.81

“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, 5 February 2025

Standards maintained

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 13 November 2019

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)
Year	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc grade 4+
2024/25	45.30	-	70.4%	14.1%
2023/24	43.70	-0.06 likely between -0.31 and 0.18	60.8%	23.1%
2022/23	41.70	-0.10 likely between -0.37 and 0.17	63.9%	17.6%

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	40.5	31.3	5.6	3.6	22.7%
2023/24	41.5	35.8	0.0	5.7	13.7%
2022/23	43.3	38.3	1.0	4.0	11.5%
2021/22	39.8	38.4	0.8	0.6	3.5%
2020/21	3.0	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0%
2019/20	32.9	3.0	0.4	29.4	90.6%

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

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.