Holderness Academy
Ofsted: Good
Score
C55
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Hull, HU12 8UZ
- Distance
- 14.7km away
Withernsea High School
Hull Road, Withernsea, HU19 2EQ
Local ranking17th of 18 secondary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Secondary
Phase
1267
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
School history and successor
Continues as Withernsea High School (URN 152761). Its page carries this history forward.
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 29 April 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership & management
- Requires improvement
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 38.9 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 24.4% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 46.3% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 30.1% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 3.4 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 123
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 92.0%
- Continued in education
- 81.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 6.0%
- Employment
- 6.0%
- Not sustained
- 6.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 731
- Boys
- 400 (55%)
- Girls
- 331 (45%)
- Capacity
- 1267 (58% full)
- SEND
- 24.6%
- FSM Eligible
- 40.6%
- EAL
- 1.0%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 8.9%
- SEN Support
- 15.7%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 14.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 49.2
- Budget per Pupil
- £10,182/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 8.7% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 28.1% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 96.0%
- Mixed Other: 1.5%
- White Other: 0.8%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.7%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.3%
- Asian Other: 0.3%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.1%
- Asian Bangladeshi: 0.1%
96.0%
White British
1.5%
Mixed Other
0.8%
White Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Hull Road
Withernsea, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 118075
- UKPRN
- 10007560
- Establishment No.
- 4054
Often compared with
Parents weighing up Withernsea High School usually look at the nearest secondary schools too. Put them side by side on results, inspection and intake.
- C55Holderness AcademyCompare side by side
Hull · 14.7km away
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- D45Havelock AcademyCompare side by side
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