Skipton Girls' High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Skipton, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
10.028 miles
Published by North Yorkshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Skipton Girls' High School is a secondary school in Skipton, North Yorkshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 September 2022. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2012 to 2026 entry.
Skipton Girls' High 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 | 10.028 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 |
And 5 earlier figures.
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 lived 10.028 miles away, the 2nd longest of 16 North Yorkshire secondary schools with a published last distance.
- In 2026, Year 7 had 180 first-choice applications for 120 offers; 119 offers went to first-choice families and 61 first-choice families (34%) were not offered a place.
- For Year 7 2026 entry, 156 of the 245 applications (64%) came from families living outside North Yorkshire; 51 offers went to them.
- 90% reached grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25 (England 45%), the highest of 9 North Yorkshire secondary schools: this one and the 8 nearest.
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
- Gargrave Road, Skipton, BD23 1QL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 862 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 September 2022
Strengths
- “Skipton Girls’ High School is a warm and welcoming place.”
- “Pupils are extremely polite, courteous and articulate.”
- “Staff’s expectations of what pupils can achieve are high.”
To improve
- “How teachers choose to implement the curriculum is more effective in some subjects than others.”
- “However, elsewhere, for example in mathematics and geography, teachers do not always choose the most appropriate strategies to deliver the curriculum.”
- “As such, some pupils are racing through the curriculum at the expense of developing a deep understanding of the subject.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 2022 (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) | 90% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 69.7 | 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: 180 first-preference applications, 120 offers in total, 119 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.
- Ermysted's Grammar School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- The Skipton Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- South Craven School 4.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Upper Wharfedale School 7.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Settle College 12.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Nidderdale High School 13.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rossett School 19.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Harrogate Grammar School 19.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published