Harrogate Grammar School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
4.308 miles
Rural · Published by North Yorkshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Harrogate Grammar School is a secondary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Harrogate Grammar 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 | 4.308 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 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026 under one of its admission criteria lived 4.308 miles from the school.
- The 2026 figure was the longest of the 8 years with a published distance, and further than in 2025; distances swung sharply between some years.
- In 2026 Year 7 entry there were 366 first-choice applications for 281 offers: 269 offers went to first-choice families, and 97 first-choice families (27%) were not offered a place.
- 2024/25 GCSE English and maths: 68% got grade 5 or above (England 45%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Arthurs Avenue, Harrogate, HG2 0DZ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 2,081 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 14 April 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils at Harrogate Grammar School move on to impressive next steps when they leave.”
- “They achieve highly and grow socially in a positive culture built on respect.”
- “Pupils feel safe, valued and well supported.”
To improve
- “In a small number of lessons, including some personal development sessions known as 'the big picture', the activities provided do not always help pupils extend their learning as well as they could.”
- “Some pupils, particularly those with special educational needs and/or disabilities or those who receive free school meals, do not attend school as regularly as they should.”
- “However, leaders recognise that persistent absence rates for some pupils, particularly those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who receive free school meals, are too high.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 July 2026 (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) | 68% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 56.6 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | 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: 366 first-preference applications, 281 offers in total, 269 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.
- Rossett School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Aidan's Church of England High School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St John Fisher Catholic Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Harrogate High School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- King James's School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Boroughbridge High School 9.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Ripon 10.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Ripon Grammar School 10.8 mi Good Last distance published