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Boys selective secondary school in Skipton, North Yorkshire

Ermysted's Grammar School

Gargrave Road, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 1PL

Ofsted Good · 2022 Selective Sixth form Boys
School website 01756792186

Ofsted

Goodas at 28 September 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 28 September 2022.

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

67.3 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

87% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

97% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

6.5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

99% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.59confidence interval 0.34 to 0.85

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above 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
B-
Average points per entry
37.4

England average 32.3

A level students
91

Pupils

Pupils on roll
836
Places
896
How full
93% full — 836 of 896 places taken
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
19%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
7%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
6%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
0%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
7%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
95%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
78%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
115

After sixth form

Went to university
58%

England 50%

In education, work or training
89%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
116

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

52% 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
83%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
120

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 Craven 005C, 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
47%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
11%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
66%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
6%

England 17%

Households with no car
23%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
37%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Boys
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Michael Evans
Local authority
North Yorkshire
Ward
Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon
URN
121716

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Skipton Girls' High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 69.7 0.2 mi
The Skipton AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.6 0.6 mi
South Craven SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47.5 4.6 mi
Carlton KeighleyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.6 7.2 mi
West Craven High SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 37.4 7.3 mi
The Holy Family Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 28.8 7.4 mi
Upper Wharfedale SchoolCommunity school No grade 48.3 7.5 mi
Beckfoot OakbankAcademy sponsor led No grade 35.3 8.5 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 Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 83.6
Chelmsford County High School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 80.7
Nonsuch High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 80.5
Cranbrook SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 66.9
St Bernard's Catholic Grammar SchoolVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2023 77.3
Ripon Grammar SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 70.9
Royal Latin SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 73.5
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Inadequate 2022 73.3

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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