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Millthorpe School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formYork, Yorkshire and the Humber · York YO23 1WFTrust: Excel Learning TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,022of 1,060 places
Free school meals
16.3%
Year 11 cohort 2025
198
Ofsted
Good, 12 March 2024Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Millthorpe School (URN 121706, until 1 March 2016).

What the data says

Millthorpe School has no sixth form. Of the 209 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 59% to a further education college and 4% started an apprenticeship.

German is unusually popular at GCSE: 23% of the year group took it, against 5% of pupils across England.

GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 53.2 against 46.1 across England and 50.8 in York, with 63% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

As an 11–16 school, Millthorpe School is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in York and England.

Millthorpe School
York
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureMillthorpe SchoolYorkEngland
Pupils in the cohort2091,887607,348
Any sustained destination93%92%92%
Stayed in education86%84%86%
— school sixth form26%40%34%
— sixth form college0%13%
— further education college59%42%37%
— other education0%2%2%
Apprenticeship4%4%3%
Employment3%3%3%
No sustained destination6%6%6%
Destination unknown1%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureMillthorpe SchoolYorkEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)53.250.846.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths63%56%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths79%74%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects56%42%41%
EBacc average point score4.904.544.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort19%19%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils38.836.334.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils56.654.150.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language3%9%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language19699%89%34%20%83%
Mathematics19699%88%28%22%84%
English Literature18895%86%34%21%84%
Combined Science15377%65%22%9%78%
Geography10252%41%31%25%77%
History10252%41%49%26%80%
French6633%18%30%29%83%
German4623%5%17%33%65%
Computer Science4221%13%40%30%79%
Physical Education4221%11%5%24%60%
Physics3819%23%42%46%97%
Biology3819%23%50%45%100%
Chemistry3819%23%42%47%100%
Graphic Communication3618%1%11%23%86%
Religious Studies3317%31%39%32%67%
Food Preparation and Nutrition3116%8%16%21%68%
3D Design2915%2%24%16%72%
Fine Art2814%9%29%28%71%
Statistics2714%5%15%20%74%
Textiles189%2%11%27%78%
Music147%5%50%33%86%
Drama137%7%69%27%100%
Astronomy42%0%29%
Latin21%1%74%
Arabic11%1%47%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Engineering Studies53
Childcare Skills26

Where Millthorpe School is

Other secondary schools in York are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from York’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in York

Fulford School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,853 pupils

91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 55.2

Huntington School

Community school · sixth form · 1,505 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.2

Joseph Rowntree School

Voluntary controlled school · sixth form · 1,248 pupils

82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.2

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.