Outwood Academy Ripon, Ripon

In 2026, pupils at Outwood Academy Ripon averaged an Attainment 8 score of 49, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 47.2 in North Yorkshire and 47 across England.

53% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 48% in North Yorkshire and 47% in England.

That is up from 46.6 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.21: 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 42, against 51.6 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.6 points.

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

For September 2026 entry, 80 families put Outwood Academy Ripon as their first choice and 214 named it as one of their preferences, for 109 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

Outwood Academy Ripon is one of 40 schools run by Outwood Grange Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 43.4 in 2024/25.

Of the 145 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 81% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 49% to a further education college, 6% to an apprenticeship and 6% into work.

10.7% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (82%) and Black (5%).

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Outwood Academy Ripon.

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Ripon School (nw-bound), 130 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Outwood Academy Ripon 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 86 crimes within a mile of the school, most often anti-social behaviour, violence and sexual offences and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in North Yorkshire (9), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Outwood Academy Ripon issued 473 suspensions, 71.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Outwood Academy Ripon are St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (0.3 miles); Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School (0.4 miles); Moorside Primary School & Nursery (0.8 miles); and Ripon Cathedral Church of England Primary School (0.9 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.