Sirius Academy North

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Kingston upon Hull, City of·HU6 9BP
Composite score
47.2
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National rank
#261
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#10
In Kingston upon Hull, City of
Top 87%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
37.8
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
34%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
52%
% EBacc grade 5+
17%
EBacc average points score
3.30

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
98%
122 first choices, 244 places
First choices per place
0.50
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
276
any preference, for 244 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.6620220.6520230.6720240.5620250.502026

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

Kingston upon Hull, City of does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Year 7 place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Sirius Academy North. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
1,237
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
51.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
19.0%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.1%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.4%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
13.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
39.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.1
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,885
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
74%
243 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
68%
Apprenticeship
4%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Sirius Academy North at a glance

Located in Kingston upon Hull, City of, Sirius Academy North is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 1,237 pupils aged 11 to 16. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 37.8, below the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 1.2 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

34% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 52% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 98% of the families who made Sirius Academy North their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 74% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 13.4%. There are about 15.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 51% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Sirius Academy North does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. 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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