Skipton Girls' High School

Skipton Girls' High School is performing well overall, rated as good in several key areas. The school is a welcoming and inclusive environment where students are highly respectful and articulate. While the leadership has implemented an ambitious curriculum that ensures good academic outcomes for students, there are some subjects where the delivery falls short, preventing pupils from developing a deep understanding of key concepts. The school maintains strong safeguarding measures and has a variety of extracurricular activities that enhance pupil development.

Strengths

• High standards of behaviour and attitudes among pupils
• Strong and ambitious curriculum plan developed by leaders
• Exceptional pupils' behaviour contributing to effective learning
• Well-supported sixth form with high standards of student work
• Strong culture of safeguarding and well-trained staff
• Inclusive environment celebrating diversity

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent implementation of the curriculum in some subjects
• Variable delivery and oversight of the PSHE curriculum
• Inefficient recording and sharing of safeguarding information
• Limited knowledge of non-university career paths among sixth form students

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Skipton Girls' High School attended 94.0% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 15.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.8% of pupils at Skipton Girls' High School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Skipton Girls' High School had 18.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 17.3% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 10.3% of pupils at Skipton Girls' High School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 0.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Skipton Girls' High School received £7,474 and spent £7,508 for each of its 855 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,210,000 (£1,415 per pupil).

Across all 15 schools of Northern Star Academies Trust, income was £7,474 and spending £7,332 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Skipton · North Yorkshire local authority: places and applications

Skipton Girls' High School is part of Northern Star Academies Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• Greatwood Community Primary School Skipton
• Victoria Primary School Keighley
• Eastwood Community School Keighley
• Holycroft Primary School Keighley
• Parkwood Primary School Keighley
• Denholme Primary School Bradford
• Byron Primary School Bradford
• Lapage Primary School and Nursery Bradford
• Meadow Bank Community School Bradford
• New Park Primary Academy Harrogate

What is Skipton Girls' High School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Skipton Girls' High School is Good, from an inspection in November 2022.

When was Skipton Girls' High School last inspected by Ofsted?

Skipton Girls' High School was last inspected in November 2022.

How many pupils does Skipton Girls' High School have?

Skipton Girls' High School has 862 pupils on roll.

What age range does Skipton Girls' High School cover?

Skipton Girls' High School for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Skipton Girls' High School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 67.5, and 87% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Skipton Girls' High School?

Skipton Girls' High School is at Gargrave Road, Skipton, North Yorkshire, BD23 1QL.