Boroughbridge High School

Community school·Secondary school North Yorkshire·YO51 9JX
Composite score
53.8
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#2,061
National rank
#187
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#26
In North Yorkshire
Top 65%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
43.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
38%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
57%
% EBacc grade 5+
17%
EBacc average points score
3.85

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
43 first choices, 48 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
116
any preference, for 48 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7720220.8820230.8620240.9020250.902026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Boroughbridge High School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
438
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
21.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
7.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
26.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
5.2%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.9%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
32.9%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.9
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,594
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
93%
60 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
63%
Apprenticeship
18%
Employment
12%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Boroughbridge High School is a secondary school serving North Yorkshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 438 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Boroughbridge High School 'Requires improvement'. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 43.0 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 3.0 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

38% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 57% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Boroughbridge High School their first choice was offered one of its 48 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 93% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.9%. There are about 16.9 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Boroughbridge High School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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