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Secondary school in Pickering, North Yorkshire

Lady Lumley's Academy

Swainsea Lane, Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 8NG

Ofsted Good · 2024 Sixth form
School website 01751380097

Ofsted

Goodas at 9 April 2024

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 9 April 2024.

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

52.7 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

70% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

81% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

33% England 40.8%

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

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.30confidence interval 0.08 to 0.53

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as 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
C+
Average points per entry
31.9

England average 32.3

A level students
51

Pupils

Pupils on roll
676
Places
1126
How full
60% full — 676 of 1126 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
348 / 328
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
27%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
18%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
2%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
13%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
92%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
81%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
38%
No sustained destination
6%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
149

After sixth form

Went to university
58%

England 50%

In education, work or training
87%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
52

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

17% 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
53%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
70

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 Ryedale 002C, 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
31%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
16%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
81%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
6%

England 17%

Households with no car
12%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
49%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
DELTA ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Clair Foden
Local authority
North Yorkshire
Ward
Pickering
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton
URN
148602

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Malton SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 46.6 7.9 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
The Hamble SchoolCommunity school No grade 47.2
Denbigh SchoolAcademy converter No grade 54.3
Claremont High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 54.8
Thomas Mills High School & Sixth FormAcademy converter Good 2023 48.4
Great Baddow High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 50
Chipping Campden SchoolAcademy converter No grade 47.3
Sir Christopher Hatton AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 50.2
William Brookes SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 41.4

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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