The Market Weighton School
Secondary · Market Weighton · YO43 3JF
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 14 September 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
658 pupils · 77% of 852 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 22.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 16.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 12.9% of pupils
- URN
- 118076
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.10 first-choice applications per place126 places offered · 138 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
90 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.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
98% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 2% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 14 September 2022: Good
- 24 June 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 25 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 4 December 2018: Requires improvement
- 25 September 2017: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 17 May 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy
- Mount Pleasant Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School
- Market Weighton Infant School
- The Becklands School
- Newbald Primary School
- Warter Church of England Primary School
- Middleton-on-the-Wolds Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- North Cave Church of England Primary School