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Secondary school in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire

Bridlington School

Bessingby Road, Bridlington, YO16 4QU

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 01262672593

Ofsted

Goodas at 19 April 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 19 April 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

30.2 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

15% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

28% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

2.6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

31% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.96confidence interval -1.17 to -0.74

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C-
Average points per entry
26.1

England average 32.3

A level students
28

Pupils

Pupils on roll
881
Places
1249
How full
71% full — 881 of 1249 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
405 / 476
Overall absence
13%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
40%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
53%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
4%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
7%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
16%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
88%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
82%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
23%
No sustained destination
11%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
180

After sixth form

Went to university
50%

England 50%

In education, work or training
75%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
40

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

18% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
64%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
45

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for East Riding of Yorkshire 003E, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
19%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
31%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
48%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
30%

England 17%

Households with no car
40%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
57%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary controlled school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Kate Parker-Randall
Ward
Bridlington South
Constituency
Bridlington and The Wolds
URN
118111

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Headlands SchoolCommunity school Good 2021 39.6 1.5 mi
Filey AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 35.7 9.1 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
St Saviour's and St Olave's Church of England SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 52.7
Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 53.6
Oasis Academy Lister ParkAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 31.6
Gladesmore Community SchoolCommunity school No grade 43.8
UTC WarringtonUniversity technical college No grade 23
Ridgeway High SchoolFoundation school Good 2024 39.2
Lift Firth ParkAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.7
CHS SouthFree schools Good 2023 48.3

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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