Beverley High School

About Beverley High School

Beverley High School was rated Outstanding in its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2021, a significant step up from its previous Good rating in 2015. The school achieved top marks across every category inspected, including Quality of Education, Behaviour and Attitudes, Personal Development, Leadership and Management, and Sixth Form Provision. On the key academic measure of Progress 8, which tracks how much pupils improve between the end of primary school and GCSEs, the school scored 0.14. That is well above the East Riding of Yorkshire local authority average of -0.13, meaning pupils here make stronger progress than their peers across the region. The school ranks 5th out of 18 secondary schools in the local authority, placing it in the top third locally. Its Attainment 8 score of 49.1 shows that the average pupil achieves nearly a grade higher per subject than the national baseline, and 71.2% of pupils achieved a grade 4 or above in both English and maths.

At A-level, the school's performance is more mixed. The average points per entry is 34.44, equivalent to a C+ grade, and the value added score of -0.18 falls within the 'Average' banding, meaning sixth form students make broadly expected progress compared with similar pupils nationally. The best three A-levels average out at a C+ grade with 32.47 points. Around 20% of entries achieved AAB or higher, and the sixth form is relatively small with 50 pupils in the cohort. The school offers a strong academic core at GCSE level, with 61.6% of pupils entered for the English Baccalaureate and 36.3% achieving it at a grade 4 or above. The Progress 8 breakdown shows the strongest progress in open subjects (0.25) and EBacc subjects (0.17), while progress in English and maths is close to the national average.

The school is a girls' secondary with a capacity of 950 and currently has 827 pupils on roll. It is oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, there were 212 applications for 149 places, with 146 of those coming from first-preference families. The oversubscription ratio is 1.42, so competition is real but not extreme. Facilities include a swimming pool, sports hall, astro turf, theatre, music rooms, and a sixth form centre. Sports on offer include tennis, swimming, athletics, football, rugby, and netball, while clubs cover drama, choir, orchestra, debate, chess, and Young Enterprise. The school has SEND provision for moderate learning difficulty, social and emotional mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, and physical disability. It is one of only two Outstanding-rated secondary schools in the East Riding, the other being Beverley Grammar School just 1.6 km away. This school suits families who want a high-performing girls' school with strong GCSE outcomes and a broad range of extracurriculars, but who are realistic about sixth form results being solid rather than exceptional.

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