Skipton Girls' High School A GSG School
- Skipton Girls' High School
Gargrave Road
Skipton
North Yorkshire
BD23 1QL - Head: Martha Featherstone
- T 01756 707600
- F 01756 707613
- E sghs@sghs.org.uk
- W www.sghs.org.uk
- A state school for girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: North Yorkshire
- Pupils: 885; sixth formers: 257
- Religion: None
- Open days: See website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 21st September 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Won the UK wide 2017 Enthuse Award STEM Secondary School of the Year and offers outstanding engineering opportunities for pupils as well as working with local schools to promote it. Some girls told us that they feel that the arts do not receive the same recognition as STEM subjects here and using the last year’s newsletters as a barometer we would agree. They therefore welcome the……..
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Martha Featherstone, an experienced senior leader and teacher educator. She has worked in a range of secondary contexts, including inner-city Bradford. Over the years she has taken on various leadership roles ranging from advanced skills teacher to deputy headteacher and now head.
Entrance
There is a designated priority area for admissions though about a quarter of intake are from outside this area. Sixty-three feeder primaries in Skipton, rural North Yorkshire and south as far as Keighley; an increasing intake from this area. As an academy the school is its own admission authority, adhering to the national code. For entry at 11 girls take externally set tests in mathematics, English and verbal reasoning in September of year 6 (116 places most years, though in the current year 7 there are 144). Being ‘deemed suitable’ does not guarantee...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
For gifted and talented students we have an accelerated curriculum. Pupils also participate in summer schools and project work with outside partners eg HE sector.
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Moorfield School and Nursery | 2023 | 4 |
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