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Secondary school in Keighley, North Yorkshire

South Craven School

Holme Lane, Cross Hills, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 7RL

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form Full
School website 01535632861

Ofsted

Goodas at 2 February 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 2 February 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

47.5 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

41% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

68% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

16% 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

0.20confidence interval 0.04 to 0.36

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
33.6

England average 32.3

A level students
100

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1936
Places
1769
How full
Full — 1936 pupils against 1769 places
Girls / boys
977 / 959
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
25%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
17%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
79%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
14%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
42%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
273

After sixth form

Went to university
48%

England 50%

In education, work or training
83%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
13%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
167

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

11% 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
56%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
153

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 008C, 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
29%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
85%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
0%

England 17%

Households with no car
11%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
APEX COLLABORATIVE TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Martyn Hill
Local authority
North Yorkshire
Ward
Glusburn, Cross Hills & Sutton-in-Craven
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon
URN
136736

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Carlton KeighleyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.6 3.2 mi
The Holy Family Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 28.8 3.3 mi
Beckfoot OakbankAcademy sponsor led No grade 35.3 4 mi
Ermysted's Grammar SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 67.3 4.6 mi
Skipton Girls' High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 69.7 4.7 mi
The Skipton AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.6 4.8 mi
Parkside SchoolAcademy converter Inadequate 2023 36.7 6.4 mi
Bingley Grammar SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 46.5 6.6 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
Northampton School for BoysAcademy converter No grade 58.2
Plantsbrook SchoolAcademy converter No grade 51.8
Shenfield High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 45.3
Seaford Head SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 49.4
The Windsor Boys' SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47.8
Bradon Forest SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 48.1
St Philip Howard Catholic SchoolAcademy converter No grade 52.5
St Peter's Church of England Aided SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 53

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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