Fulford School
URN 144711 · Secondary · Academy converter · York
Fulfordgate, York, YO10 4FY
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, 324 families named Fulford School as their first preference, and the school made 295 offers.
That is 1.10 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 72% 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 1.06 in 2021–2022 and 1.14 in 2024–2025.
| Intake | 1st preferences | All preferences | Offers made | 1st prefs per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 324 | 607 | 295 | 1.10 |
| 2024 | 349 | 614 | 294 | 1.19 |
| 2023 | 290 | 531 | 295 | 0.98 |
| 2022 | 270 | 542 | 266 | 1.02 |
| 2021 | 286 | 536 | 260 | 1.10 |
| 2020 | 294 | 530 | 267 | 1.10 |
| 2019 | 293 | 512 | 274 | 1.07 |
| 2018 | 265 | 492 | 249 | 1.06 |
“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), 4 October 2023
Overall effectiveness: Outstanding
Quality of education: Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding
Personal development: Outstanding
Leadership and management: Outstanding
Early years: 9
Sixth form / post-16: Outstanding
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.
| Year | Attainment 8 | Progress 8 | Grade 4+ English & maths | EBacc grade 4+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 55.20 | - | 82.3% | 36.6% |
| 2023/24 | 58.90 | 0.54 likely between 0.37 and 0.71 |
84.7% | 39.6% |
| 2022/23 | 58.60 | 0.67 likely between 0.49 and 0.85 |
87.5% | 43.8% |
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 | 92.6 | 86.9 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 6.0% |
| 2023/24 | 93.1 | 82.5 | 4.0 | 6.6 | 11.4% |
| 2022/23 | 89.0 | 82.8 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 7.0% |
| 2021/22 | 89.3 | 77.7 | 3.2 | 8.4 | 13.0% |
| 2020/21 | 89.1 | 78.0 | 2.9 | 8.2 | 12.5% |
| 2019/20 | 82.5 | 76.9 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 6.7% |
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: 300
Places offered: 300
2024 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 300
Places offered: 300
2023 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 300
Places offered: 301
2022 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 270
Places offered: 270
2021 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 240
Places offered: 260
2020 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 240
Places offered: 268
2019 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 240
Places offered: 274
2018 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 252
Places offered: 252
2017 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 266
Places offered: 266
2016 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 220
Places offered: 221
2015 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 208
Places offered: 252
2014 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 208
Places offered: 220
2013 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 208
Places offered: 213
2012 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 208
Places offered: 214
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
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 261 |
| Sibling | 15 |
| Feeder school | 9 |
| Distance | 7 |
| Social or medical need | 7 |
| Other | 1 |
| All the children counted here | 300 |
2024 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 245 |
| Feeder school | 23 |
| Sibling | 16 |
| Social or medical need | 10 |
| Distance | 3 |
| Other | 3 |
| All the children counted here | 300 |
2023 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 139 |
| Catchment Sibling | 93 |
| Distance | 51 |
| Social or medical need | 15 |
| Sibling | 3 |
| All the children counted here | 301 |
2022 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 237 |
| Distance | 25 |
| Social or medical need | 6 |
| Sibling | 2 |
| All the children counted here | 270 |
2021 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 254 |
| Sibling | 4 |
| Social or medical need | 2 |
| All the children counted here | 260 |
2020 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 263 |
| Social or medical need | 5 |
| All the children counted here | 268 |
2019 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 266 |
| Sibling | 4 |
| Social or medical need | 4 |
| All the children counted here | 274 |
2018 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 243 |
| Social or medical need | 6 |
| Sibling | 3 |
| All the children counted here | 252 |
2017 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 258 |
| Sibling | 5 |
| Social or medical need | 3 |
| All the children counted here | 266 |
2016 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 216 |
| Social or medical need | 3 |
| Sibling | 2 |
| All the children counted here | 221 |
2015 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 246 |
| Sibling | 4 |
| Social or medical need | 2 |
| All the children counted here | 252 |
2014 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 213 |
| Social or medical need | 5 |
| Sibling | 2 |
| All the children counted here | 220 |
2013 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 201 |
| Social or medical need | 9 |
| Sibling | 3 |
| All the children counted here | 213 |
2012 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 207 |
| Social or medical need | 4 |
| Sibling | 3 |
| All the children counted here | 214 |
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 Fulford School.
- Millthorpe School: 2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west, York
- Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England Academy: 2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east, York
- York High School: 4.3 km (2.7 miles) west, York
- Vale of York Academy: 5.0 km (3.1 miles) north-west, York
- Huntington School: 6.0 km (3.7 miles) north, York
- Manor Church of England Academy: 6.3 km (3.9 miles) north-west, York
Nearby and related
- Other schools near Fulford School
- All schools in York
- Schools in the YO10 postcode district
- What data we hold
- This page as JSON: the same figures, for software that would rather not read a web page
Where these figures come from
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase and address
Retrieved 2 September 2026 - Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2018 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - York: offer-day statistics. Admissions Summary Allocated, secondary 2025, City of York Council
Retrieved 5 September 2026 - York: admission rule breakdown. How places were shared out, 2012 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 5 September 2026 - Department for Education: key stage 4 performance. Attainment 8, Progress 8 and EBacc, by school
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school workforce in England. Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census
Retrieved 4 September 2026
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.