Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science
Secondary · Selby · YO8 4HT
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 5 October 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,176 pupils · 99% of 1,185 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 28.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 13.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.5% of pupils
- Website
- http://www.selby-high.org.uk
- URN
- 121702
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.92 first-choice applications per place228 places offered · 210 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
226 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)
95% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% moved to another state school · 1% 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
- 4 October 2023: School remains Good
- 12 June 2018: School remains Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- The Rubicon Centre
- Selby Community Primary School
- Selby Abbey Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- Brayton Academy
- Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- Barlby Bridge Community Primary School
- Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby