Barlby High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Selby, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Barlby High School is a secondary school in Selby, North Yorkshire for ages 11–16 (academy converter). North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2012 to 2026 entry.
Barlby 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 | 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 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
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, but places ran out (a last distance was published) in 2 of the 8 earlier years.
- Year 7 2026 had 73 first-choice applications for 95 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 22 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 38% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 42.8 (England 46).
- That 2024/25 grade 5 or above figure in GCSE English and maths was the 2nd lowest 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
- York Road, Barlby, Selby, YO8 5JP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 482 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 25 November 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils at Barlby High School are happy and safe.”
- “There is a deep sense of community, and pupils are regarded as individuals.”
- “Staff understand the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and the barriers that some other pupils face, for example those who are known to children’s social care and those who are disadvantaged.”
To improve
- “There are some inconsistencies in the way some staff use the behaviour policy to address the occasional instances of low-level disruption, more typically from some older pupils.”
- “In a small number of subjects, more work is needed to help pupils to deepen their knowledge and understanding further.”
- “Leaders recognise the need to embed their recent changes in these areas to ensure that pupils achieve consistently well across the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 January 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) | 38% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42.8 | 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: 73 first-preference applications, 95 offers in total, 73 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 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Brayton Academy 2.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Sherburn High School 8.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Tadcaster Grammar School 12.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King James's School 22.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Easingwold 22.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St John Fisher Catholic Academy 23.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Aidan's Church of England High School 23.5 mi Good Last distance published