Longcroft School and Sixth Form College
Secondary · Beverley · HU17 7EJ
Data updated
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 8 November 2023
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722 pupils · 46% of 1,578 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 25.2% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 4.3% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 12.5% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 3.6% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Sixth form
- Yes
- URN
- 118073
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 146 families named it first for 155 Year 7 places, 0.94 first choices per place. We hold 3 Year 7 admissions rounds for it, 2024 to 2026; none was decided by a published distance. Ofsted last graded it Good on 8 November 2023, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 5.4% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.94 first-choice applications per place155 places offered · 146 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Year 7
Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Beverley school admissions · East Riding of Yorkshire school admissions
GCSE results (2024/2025)
144 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
A-level results (2024/2025)
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Schools with a similar intake
Attainment 8, 2024/2025
On attainment 8, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.
They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.
| School | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Henley In Arden School | 50.4 | |
| Alcester Academy | 54 | |
| Bassingbourn Village College | 47.5 | |
| Oldbury Wells School | 44.9 | |
| Eggar's School | 48.1 | |
| Uplands Academy | 42.5 | |
| Wootton Academy | 44.3 | |
| The Orme Academy | 43.8 | |
| Shevington High School | 49 | |
| Fakenham Academy | 40.9 | |
| Penwortham Priory Academy | 43.2 | |
| Purbrook Park School | 47.7 |
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 88% (East Riding of Yorkshire 89%, England 59%) · Any other Mixed background 3% (East Riding of Yorkshire 1%, England 3%) · Any other White background 3% (East Riding of Yorkshire 5%, England 7%) · Any other ethnic group 2% (East Riding of Yorkshire 1%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Asian 1% (East Riding of Yorkshire 1%, England 2%) · Asian Indian 1% (East Riding of Yorkshire 0%, England 4%) · Black African 1% (East Riding of Yorkshire 0%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (East Riding of Yorkshire 0%, England 2%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
13.05 suspensions per 100 pupils and 2 permanent exclusions · England, secondary schools: 21.24 suspensions and 0.23 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · East Riding of Yorkshire: 21.30 suspensions and 0.33 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
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Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
86% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% moved to another state school · 10% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, council-maintained secondaries: 0.22% vacant, 0.42% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
72.3% of teachers took sickness absence, 14.8 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £55,546; 14.3% on the leadership pay range · England, secondary schools: £53,766, 11.3%
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Spending per pupil (2025-26)
Where the money went (2025-26)
Share of spending, with the median for secondary schools in brackets: Staff 74% (77%) · premises 7% (6%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 8% (7%) · supplies and services 10% (10%) · educational supplies 6% (6%) · bought-in professional services 4% (2%) · catering 1% (3%)
Reserves (2025-26)
Revenue reserve -£569,963; in-year balance -£27,973
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Where pupils go after GCSEs
Where students go after sixth form
Destinations measured the year after leaving, DfE destination measures in the 2024/2025 performance tables.
Inspection history since 2015
- 8 November 2023: Good
- 26 February 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 14 January 2020: Requires improvement
- 11 October 2017: Requires improvement
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 9/10among the least deprived fifth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 48.3% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 8.9% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 51% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 7.3% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 53.3% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 85% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 6.3% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 8.7% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 55.6% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 5% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 43.3% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 9.3% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01013068 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £317,500208 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £250,000–£415,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are dearer than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 4an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 7an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 2an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted
Nearby schools
- Molescroft Primary School
- St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Beverley
- Beverley Manor Nursery School
- Beverley High School
- Beverley Minster CE Primary School
- Swinemoor Primary School
- Beverley Grammar School
- St John of Beverley Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy