Brayton Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Selby, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
6.707 miles
Published by North Yorkshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Brayton Academy is a secondary school in Selby, North Yorkshire for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 27 November 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2011 to 2026 entry.
Brayton Academy 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 | 6.707 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 6 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 68% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 53.4 (England 46).
- That 2024/25 GCSE figure was the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in North Yorkshire.
- For Year 7 2026, the last child offered a place lived 6.707 miles away, the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance and nearer than in 2011.
- There were 238 first-choice applications for 231 Year 7 offers in 2026; 226 went to first-choice families and 12 first-choice families were not offered a place.
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
- Doncaster Road, Selby, YO8 9QS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 988 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 27 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at the school are confident, resilient and respectful.”
- “Staff have high expectations of how pupils should behave and what they can achieve.”
- “The vast majority of pupils, including the most disadvantaged, meet these expectations.”
To improve
- “However, the school has recognised that this has limited some pupils’ exposure to important curriculum content, particularly in computing and religious education (RE).”
- “However, their knowledge of other faiths and cultures remains underdeveloped.”
- “The school has identified where additional professional development is required, for example around the teaching of PSHE and RSE, to ensure it is of a high quality.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 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) | 68% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 53.4 | 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: 238 first-preference applications, 231 offers in total, 226 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.
- Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barlby High School 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sherburn High School 7.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Tadcaster Grammar School 11.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King James's School 22.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John Fisher Catholic Academy 22.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Aidan's Church of England High School 23.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Harrogate High School 23.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published