State secondary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire
18 schools · Yorkshire and the Humber · 2024/25 Department for Education figures
East Riding of Yorkshire has 18 state secondaries, 11 of them with sixth forms. 96.8% of families got their first choice last year, better than most of England. Results run from 15.2% to 56% passing English and maths, a spread of 41 points, with a middle school at 42.5%, almost exactly England's 45.4%.
Of those Ofsted has graded, 2 rated Outstanding, 9 Good. 7 schools carry no overall grade at all — either inspected since Ofsted stopped issuing one in September 2024, or never inspected.
East Riding of Yorkshire against England
State-funded schools, 2024/25
Getting a place
2026/27 secondary admissions round, across East Riding of Yorkshire
96.8%
Got their first choiceof those who applied
England 84%
99%
Got one of their threefirst, second or third
<0.1%
Got no offer at allfrom any preference
21%
Appeals upheld3 of 14 heard
These are figures for East Riding of Yorkshire as a whole. A popular school can be much harder to get into than the average suggests, and the criteria that decide it are set by each school's own admission authority rather than centrally. How applying works
How much the choice matters here
Across East Riding of Yorkshire's 18 schools, the share passing English and maths runs from 15% to 56%. That is a spread of 41 percentage points, about typical.
The typical council spans about 48 points. Where schools are close together the school a child gets matters less; where they are far apart it matters a great deal. The widest spreads are all selective areas, where grammar schools sit at one end and everything else at the other.
East Riding of Yorkshire schools, subject by subject
The share reaching grade 4 or above, among schools entering at least 20 pupils. Which pupils take a subject differs a lot between schools, so read this as what happened rather than as a ranking of teaching.
- 1 The Market Weighton School Market Weighton · 79 entries 84%
- 2 Beverley High School Beverley · 138 entries 83%
- 3 Wolfreton School and Sixth Form College Hull · 233 entries 83%
- 4 South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College North Ferriby · 332 entries 81%
- 5 Longcroft School and Sixth Form College Beverley · 141 entries 80%
- 6 Hessle High School and Penshurst Primary School Hessle · 225 entries 76%
- 7 Hornsea School and Language College Hornsea · 188 entries 73%
- 8 Cottingham High School Cottingham · 143 entries 73%
- 9 Howden School Goole · 127 entries 70%
- 10 Headlands School Bridlington · 155 entries 70%
- 11 The Snaith School Goole · 169 entries 67%
- 12 Beverley Grammar School Beverley · 135 entries 67%
- 13 Goole Academy Goole · 197 entries 67%
- 14 Woldgate School and Sixth Form College York · 213 entries 67%
- 15 Holderness Academy Hull · 173 entries 65%
- 16 Driffield School and Sixth Form Driffield · 224 entries 61%
- 17 Withernsea High School Withernsea · 120 entries 48%
- 18 Bridlington School Bridlington · 151 entries 38%
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Every school in East Riding of Yorkshire
Kingston upon Hull, City of sits inside East Riding of Yorkshire but runs its own admissions as a separate local authority, so its schools are not in this list.
1 of 18 have no spare places. Sort the list, or narrow it first.
- Beverley Grammar School Beverley · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 49%
- Attainment 8
- 46.2
- Absence
- 21%
- Beverley High School Beverley · Outstanding.
- Eng & maths
- 50%
- Attainment 8
- 50.1
- Absence
- 21%
- Bridlington School Bridlington · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 15%
- Attainment 8
- 30.2
- Absence
- 34%
- Cottingham High School Cottingham · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 42%
- Attainment 8
- 45.2
- Absence
- 22%
- Driffield School and Sixth Form Driffield · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 35%
- Attainment 8
- 44
- Absence
- 25%
- Goole Academy Goole · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 54%
- Attainment 8
- 49.9
- Absence
- 23%
- Headlands School Bridlington · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 36%
- Attainment 8
- 39.6
- Absence
- 32%
- Hessle High School and Penshurst Primary School Hessle · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 39%
- Attainment 8
- 44.7
- Absence
- 20%
- Holderness Academy Hull · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 38%
- Attainment 8
- 43.1
- Absence
- 20%
- Hornsea School and Language College Hornsea · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 43%
- Attainment 8
- 44.5
- Absence
- 22%
- Howden School Goole · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 45%
- Attainment 8
- 46.2
- Absence
- 19%
- Longcroft School and Sixth Form College Beverley · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 55%
- Attainment 8
- 49.6
- Absence
- 19%
- South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College North Ferriby · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 56%
- Attainment 8
- 52.5
- Absence
- 15%
- The Market Weighton School Market Weighton · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 41%
- Attainment 8
- 42.6
- Absence
- 20%
- The Snaith School Goole · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 41%
- Attainment 8
- 46.3
- Absence
- 19%
- Withernsea High School Withernsea · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 24%
- Attainment 8
- 38.9
- Absence
- 26%
- Woldgate School and Sixth Form College York · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 46%
- Attainment 8
- 46.9
- Absence
- 25%
- Wolfreton School and Sixth Form College Hull · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 52%
- Attainment 8
- 47.6
- Absence
- 18%
Pick up to 4 schools to see them side by side in the comparison tool, subject by subject.
Sixth form · Key stage 5·2024/25
A levels in East Riding of Yorkshire
11 of East Riding of Yorkshire's 11 sixth forms publish A level results. Ranked on the share reaching AAB or better in at least two of the subjects universities name, which is the measure the steepest entry requirements are written in.
- Driffield School and Sixth Form Driffield C+ 23%
- Wolfreton School and Sixth Form College Hull C 22%
- Beverley High School Beverley C 21%
- South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College North Ferriby B- 18%
- Beverley Grammar School Beverley C+ 17%
- Longcroft School and Sixth Form College Beverley C 14%
- Woldgate School and Sixth Form College York C 13%
- Hessle High School and Penshurst Primary School Hessle C+ 11%
- Hornsea School and Language College Hornsea D+ 6%
- Bridlington School Bridlington D+ 0%
- Headlands School Bridlington C —
A level results only. A sixth form running mostly BTECs and other applied courses will show a dash here and can still be the right one — those are graded on their own scale, where a distinction and an A grade carry the same points and mean different things.
Bordering East Riding of Yorkshire
Near a boundary, schools on both sides are usually in reach. Whether a child can apply is set by each school's admission criteria, not by the border.
What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
- First preference
- The share of families who were offered the school they ranked first on their application, on national offer day in March. This figure is calculated across the relevant schools or admissions authority, so a high overall figure does not necessarily mean that every individual school is easy to get into.
- Spare places
- The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
- Average A-level grade
- The average grade achieved across students' A-level entries. This is different from measures such as the proportion achieving AAB or better in two or more facilitating subjects, which are sometimes used to indicate higher attainment and university-entry performance.