Tadcaster Grammar School, Tadcaster

From the headteacher's welcome: "Please refer to our Prospectus & Course Directory to discover what is available in The Sixth Form at Tadcaster Grammar School: “Hi, I’m Alice and I’m one of new head students for 2025/2026! I study Chemistry, Biology, Psychology and RPE at A level and I hope to go to university to study veterinary medicine in 2026."

In 2026, pupils at Tadcaster Grammar School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 52, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 47.2 in North Yorkshire and 47 across England.

56% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 48% in North Yorkshire and 47% in England.

That is up from 50 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.27: 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 32.8, against 54.2 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 21.4 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 26 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and Art and Design.

For September 2026 entry, 256 families put Tadcaster Grammar School as their first choice and 581 named it as one of their preferences, for 254 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 9 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Tadcaster Grammar School are Boston Spa Academy (2.7 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 54.9); and Wetherby High School (4.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 49.2).

Tadcaster Grammar School's 2026 results were higher than 1 of these 2 schools.

Tadcaster Grammar School is one of 17 schools run by Yorkshire Learning Trust, an academy trust.

Of the 263 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 88% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 42% to a further education college, 3% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

Of the 99 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 49% went on to university or other higher education, 9% to apprenticeships and 22% into work. 29% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

9.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 2.1% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Tadcaster Grammar School.

1 bus stop is within a five-minute walk; the closest is Tadcaster Grammar School (w-bound), 170 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Tadcaster Grammar School stands in is among the 10% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 1 crime within a mile of the school, most often other theft. That is well below the typical figure around schools in North Yorkshire (9).

In 2024/25, Tadcaster Grammar School issued 94 suspensions, 6.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Tadcaster Grammar School are Riverside School, Tadcaster (1.6 miles); and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (1.8 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.