Whitby School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–19 · Whitby, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Whitby School is a secondary school in Whitby, North Yorkshire for ages 11–19 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 7 November 2023. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2011 to 2026 entry.
Whitby School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 5 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, but places ran out (a last distance was published) in all 3 earlier years.
- In 2024/25, 32% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths, the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in North Yorkshire.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 167 first-choice applications for 176 offers, or 0.9 first choices per offer, the 19th highest of 39 North Yorkshire secondary schools.
- 26.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21.1% across the 8 nearest secondary schools in North Yorkshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other North Yorkshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Prospect Hill, Whitby, YO21 1LA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 975 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 7 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils do access an increasingly ambitious curriculum.”
- “They are studying a wider range of content at key stage 3 than they did previously.”
- “In lessons, pupils generally behave well and focus upon their learning.”
To improve
- “Pupils experience a variable quality of education.”
- “The strong learning that pupils experience in some subjects is not consistently replicated in others.”
- “However, pupils’ behaviour outside of lessons is less orderly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 32% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 39.5 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C- | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 167 first-preference applications, 176 offers in total, 167 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in North Yorkshire.
- Scalby Academy 15.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Graham School 15.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Augustine's Catholic School - a Catholic voluntary academy 16.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Scarborough University Technical College 16.8 mi Good
- Lady Lumley's Academy 17.2 mi Good Last distance published
- George Pindar School 19.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ryedale School 21.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Stokesley School 22.5 mi Good Last distance published