# York High School

URN 144652, Secondary, Academy sponsor led, York.

Cornlands Road, York, YO24 3WZ.

This page states what happened. It publishes no score, no ranking and no prediction, and nothing here says whether a particular child would be offered a place.

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last retrieved a source behind this page.

## How many families applied

In the 2025 intake, 155 families named this school as their first preference, and it made 145 offers.

That is 1.07 first preferences per place offered, at Year 7. This describes demand. It is not a pass rate and not a prediction.

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.72 in 2021–2022 and 1.03 in 2024–2025.

| Intake year | First preferences | Offers made | First preferences per place |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| 2025 | 155 | 145 | 1.07 |
| 2024 | 146 | 148 | 0.99 |
| 2023 | 166 | 185 | 0.90 |
| 2022 | 130 | 187 | 0.70 |
| 2021 | 114 | 152 | 0.75 |
| 2020 | 112 | 180 | 0.62 |
| 2019 | 120 | 185 | 0.65 |

## How the last place was given out








## How the places were shared out

2025 intake, year_7: 150 children accounted for. These are the council's own names for its rules and cannot be compared with another council's.

| Rule | Children admitted |
|---|---:|
| Catchment | 144 |
| Social or medical need | 6 |

2024 intake, year_7: 150 children accounted for. These are the council's own names for its rules and cannot be compared with another council's.

| Rule | Children admitted |
|---|---:|
| Catchment | 135 |
| Sibling | 6 |
| Distance | 5 |
| Social or medical need | 4 |

2023 intake, year_7: 185 children accounted for. These are the council's own names for its rules and cannot be compared with another council's.

| Rule | Children admitted |
|---|---:|
| Catchment | 128 |
| Catchment Sibling | 38 |
| Distance | 10 |
| Other | 5 |
| Sibling | 4 |

2022 intake, year_7: 159 children accounted for. These are the council's own names for its rules and cannot be compared with another council's.

| Rule | Children admitted |
|---|---:|
| Catchment | 151 |
| Distance | 3 |
| Sibling | 3 |
| Social or medical need | 2 |

2021 intake, year_7: 130 children accounted for. These are the council's own names for its rules and cannot be compared with another council's.

| Rule | Children admitted |
|---|---:|
| Catchment | 110 |
| Distance | 13 |
| Sibling | 4 |
| Social or medical need | 3 |

2020 intake, year_7: 181 children accounted for. These are the council's own names for its rules and cannot be compared with another council's.

| Rule | Children admitted |
|---|---:|
| Catchment | 136 |
| Other | 35 |
| Distance | 6 |
| Sibling | 3 |
| Social or medical need | 1 |

2019 intake, year_7: 186 children accounted for. These are the council's own names for its rules and cannot be compared with another council's.

| Rule | Children admitted |
|---|---:|
| Catchment | 151 |
| Other | 27 |
| Distance | 6 |
| Sibling | 1 |
| Social or medical need | 1 |

## Catchment area

We hold no published admission area for this school. That is not the same as an address being outside one. We cannot say either way.

## Results

Withheld figures are shown as a dash, never as zero. Progress measures are estimates and are published by the government with a 95% confidence interval.

Key stage 4, 2024: Attainment 8 41.20, Progress 8 not published.

Key stage 4, 2023: Attainment 8 35.20, Progress 8 -0.75.

Key stage 4, 2022: Attainment 8 36.70, Progress 8 -0.54.

## Where these figures come from

- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase and address. https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/. Retrieved 2 September 2026.
- Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/monthly-management-information-ofsteds-school-inspections-outcomes. Retrieved 4 September 2026.
- Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2019 to 2025 intakes. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/primary-and-secondary-school-applications-and-offers. Retrieved 4 September 2026.
- York: offer-day statistics. Admissions Summary Allocated, secondary 2025, City of York Council. https://data.yorkopendata.org/dataset/5ea8f5ce-d9a9-48db-952d-728e39c45329/resource/ef1eaab5-ce3b-444f-85d5-d0bc281de0ad/download/admissionssummaryallocated2025.csv. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
- York: admission rule breakdown. How places were shared out, 2019 to 2025 intakes. Retrieved 5 September 2026.
- Department for Education: key stage 4 performance. Attainment 8, Progress 8 and EBacc, by school. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-4-performance. Retrieved 4 September 2026.
- Department for Education: school workforce in England. Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census. https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england. Retrieved 4 September 2026.

"Retrieved" is the day we downloaded the data, not the day it was written, so a figure can be about an earlier year.

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