Huntington School
Local authority school · ages 11–18 · with a sixth form
Above average on 1 of the four headline measures — 6th of 9 for average grade in York.
York · York · one of 9 state secondaries
Summary
Huntington School sits 6th of 9 state secondaries in York for average GCSE grade. 69.9% of its pupils passed both English and maths, against 74.4% across York. 50% reached the stronger grade 5 in both. Subject by subject it is furthest clear of York in history and physics, and furthest behind in combined science and maths. Ofsted: Outstanding in October 2017, confirmed in November 2023.
It is a school of 1,505 pupils, taking ages 11 to 18 and running its own sixth form. 17.5% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, and 15.7% are on SEN support with a further 2.1% holding an education, health and care plan. 59.7% were entered for the full EBacc, more than the 41.7% entered across York, which is a choice about how broad a curriculum to push, and 43.2% took the separate sciences rather than combined. 22.4% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, about the same as York, and 82.2% of its leavers went on to further education.
Subject comparisons are measured at grade 4 or above against York, and count as ahead or behind only where the gap is wider than the year-to-year swing that entry group would produce.
The school·York
Inspection
Outstanding
Last inspected November 2023
The grade itself is 8 years old.
- November 2023 Ungraded inspection School remains Outstanding
- October 2017 Full inspection Outstanding
An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds rather than replacing it.
That grade was given under the framework Ofsted used before September 2019.
Attendance
22% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, against 21% across York and 21% nationally. The comparators are the median secondary school, not an average.
GCSE · Key stage 4·2024/25
Attainment
After Year 11
82% stayed in education, 4% started an apprenticeship (2022/23 leavers)
GCSE results by subject
2024/25 · share reaching grade 4 or above · a standard pass, the old grade C
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Sixth form · Key stage 5·2024/25
Sixth form
2024/25 · 134 A level students
B
Average A level resultper entry, DfE grade
in line with average
York B · England C+
B
Best three A levelsthe grade a typical offer asks for
24%
AAB or betterat least two in facilitating subjects
in line with average
York 24.4% · England 12.8%
88%
Stayed the coursefinished what they started
below average
York 94.9% · England 95.7%
Applied general qualifications: average result Distinction-, 54 students, 84.6% stayed the course. These are BTECs and similar, graded pass to distinction* rather than A* to E, so the two cannot be compared directly.
A level results by subject
2024/25 · share reaching B or above
After sixth form
Of the 3 students who finished, 49.7% went on to higher education, 5.2% to an apprenticeship, and 29.4% into work. 88.9% were in a sustained destination of some kind six months later.
Destinations are for 2022/23 leavers, the most recent DfE has published. The results above are 2024/25.
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.
- The EBacc
- A combination of subjects rather than a qualification in its own right: English, Maths, the Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography. The figure shows the share of pupils entered for all the EBacc subject areas, so it gives an indication of how widely a school enters pupils for this particular combination of subjects.
- Progress 8
- A measure of how much progress pupils make between the end of primary school and the end of GCSE, rather than simply what grades they achieve. It takes pupils' prior attainment into account, making it useful for comparing schools with different intakes. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because the pupils concerned did not have Key Stage 2 tests that can be used as the normal starting point.
- Percentage points
- The gap between two percentages. A subject going from 30% to 36% has risen six percentage points, though it has risen by a fifth. We write "pp" to keep the two apart.
- Why some subjects say nothing
- A year group is small. Where a gap is no bigger than the swing a different intake would produce, we say the subjects are level rather than dressing chance as a finding. Two kinds of subject carry no share at all: a vocational award has no 9-to-1 grade to report, and some qualifications are not published on the 9-to-1 scale for a given year group, most often community languages sat outside the school's own timetable.
- 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.
- 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.
- Grades not published
- Where a subject was sat by only a few students, the Department for Education publishes how many entered and withholds the grades, so that individual students cannot be identified from the figures. The subject is shown, because the school does teach it, but there is nothing to compare. Most A level groups are small enough for this to apply somewhere on a page.
- 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.
School details
Huntington Road
Huntington
York
North Yorkshire
YO32 9WT
- Headteacher
- Mr Matthew Smith
- Pupils
- 1,505 of 1,557 places
- Spare places
- 6%
- Free school meals
- 18%
- SEND
- 16% on SEN support, 2% with an EHC plan
- Separate sciences
- 43% of the year
- Progress 8
- Not published · last +0.06 in 2023/24
Other schools in York
8 schools. Distances are straight-line from this school.
- Joseph Rowntree School 0.9 km
- Vale of York Academy 2.8 km
- Archbishop Holgate's School, A Church of England Academy 4.5 km
- All Saints Catholic School York 4.7 km
- Millthorpe School 4.9 km
- Manor Church of England Academy 5 km
- Fulford School 6 km
- York High School 6.2 km