Upper Wharfedale School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–16 · Skipton, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
9.480 miles
Published by North Yorkshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Upper Wharfedale School is a secondary school in Skipton, North Yorkshire for ages 11–16 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 4 December 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2012 to 2026 entry.
Upper Wharfedale 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 | 9.480 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2012 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Year 7 2026, the last child offered a place lived 9.480 miles from the school, the 3rd longest of 16 North Yorkshire secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Year 7 last distance was about the same as in 2025 and 2019, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 7 years.
- Year 7 2026 had 65 first-choice applications for 66 offers; 59 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families (9%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 48.3 (England 46).
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
- Wharfeside Avenue, Threshfield, Skipton, BD23 5BS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 351 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 4 December 2024
Strengths
- “Upper Wharfedale School is an enjoyable place to learn.”
- “Staff and pupils alike care for each other.”
- “Pupils are happy to be in school.”
To improve
- “At times, the school could do more to identify the reasons that some pupils struggle to improve their reading.”
- “However, on occasion, the school does not promptly identify areas for improvement.”
- “This means that the quality of the school’s provision cannot be improved on the small number of occasions in which this is the case.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 January 2025 (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) | 61% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 48.3 | 46 |
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: 65 first-preference applications, 66 offers in total, 59 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.
- Skipton Girls' High School 7.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Ermysted's Grammar School 7.5 mi Good Last distance published
- The Skipton Academy 7.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Nidderdale High School 9.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Settle College 11.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- South Craven School 11.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Wensleydale School 18.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Ripon 19.7 mi Good Last distance published