Lady Lumley's Academy, Pickering

In 2026, pupils at Lady Lumley's Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 54.5, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 47.2 in North Yorkshire and 47 across England.

70% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 48% in North Yorkshire and 47% in England.

That is up from 52.7 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.3: pupils made above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 48.3, against 55.6 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 7.3 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 19 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and Art and Design.

For September 2026 entry, 101 families put Lady Lumley's Academy as their first choice and 198 named it as one of their preferences, for 110 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

Lady Lumley's Academy is one of 64 schools run by Delta Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 48.1 in 2024/25.

Of the 153 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 87% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 31% to a further education college, 4% to an apprenticeship and 5% into work.

Of the 47 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 45% went on to university or other higher education, 6% to apprenticeships and 38% into work. 22% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

1.9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Pickering (North Yorkshire Moors Railway), about 600 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Lady Lumley's School (sw-bound), 80 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Lady Lumley's Academy stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. On income deprivation affecting children it is in the 7th decile, where the 1st is the most deprived. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 35 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and other theft. That is well above the typical figure around schools in North Yorkshire (9), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Lady Lumley's Academy issued 214 suspensions, 29.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Lady Lumley's Academy are St Joseph's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy (0.2 miles), Pickering Community Junior School (0.2 miles) and Pickering Community Infant School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.