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Secondary school in York

Huntington School

Huntington Road, Huntington, York, North Yorkshire, YO32 9WT

Ofsted Outstanding · 2023 Sixth form
School website 01904752100

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 29 November 2023

Remained Outstanding at its last ungraded inspection, on 29 November 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 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

48.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

50% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

70% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

60% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half 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 bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.06confidence interval -0.12 to 0.25

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
38.5

England average 32.3

A level students
134

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1505
Places
1545
How full
Nearly full — 1505 of 1545 places taken
Girls / boys
758 / 747
Overall absence
10%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
26%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
16%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
89%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
82%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
50%
No sustained destination
6%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
236

After sixth form

Went to university
46%

England 50%

In education, work or training
87%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
7%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
164

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

34% 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
76%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
144

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 York 004A, 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
30%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
23%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
42%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
42%

England 17%

Households with no car
25%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
48%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Community 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: Matthew Smith
Local authority
York
Ward
Huntington & New Earswick
Constituency
York Outer
URN
121673

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Joseph Rowntree SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2022 48.2 0.6 mi
Vale of York AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 45.3 1.7 mi
Bootham SchoolOther independent school No grade 2 mi
St Peter's School 2-18Other independent school No grade 2 mi
Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England AcademyAcademy converter No grade 56.7 2.8 mi
The Mount School (York)Other independent school No grade 2.9 mi
All Saints Catholic School YorkAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 53.7 2.9 mi
Millthorpe SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 53.2 3 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
Rednock SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 44.9
Midhurst Rother CollegeAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2024 48.8
Cirencester Deer Park SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 52.5
Manor High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 58.9
East Bergholt High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47.8
Tarleton AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 46.3
The Holy Cross SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 59.2
Skegness Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2021 52

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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