The Market Weighton School, Market Weighton

Ofsted's report card from its 7 July 2026 inspection grades The Market Weighton School on 6 areas: 2 strong standard and 4 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Inclusion - Strong standard. "The Market Weighton School is a fully inclusive community."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have established a well-designed programme to develop pupils' personal development."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Overall, pupils' outcomes have improved to be broadly in line with national averages."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders understand the barriers that some pupils face in attending regularly."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have embedded a well-designed curriculum across all subjects and year groups."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders and governors know their school well."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that highly effective teaching is consistently embedded across the school so that all groups of pupils, particularly disadvantaged pupils, achieve well"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils demonstrate consistent self-discipline and commitment to their learning".

In 2026, pupils at The Market Weighton School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 46, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 45.1 in East Riding of Yorkshire and 47 across England.

49% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 43% in East Riding of Yorkshire and 47% in England.

That is up from 42.6 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0: pupils made about 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 32.5, against 49.6 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 17.1 points.

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

For September 2026 entry, 138 families put The Market Weighton School as their first choice and 187 named it as one of their preferences, for 126 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 14 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

Of the 122 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 81% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 53% to a further education college, 12% to an apprenticeship and 2% into work.

3.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 113 pupils (17.2%) received SEN support and 96 (14.6%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

The Market Weighton School has a resourced provision for autism: 40 places, 41 pupils on roll.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of The Market Weighton School.

1 bus stop is within a five-minute walk; the closest is Market Weighton School, 30 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood The Market Weighton School stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, The Market Weighton School issued 135 suspensions, 21.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to The Market Weighton School are St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy (0.6 miles), Mount Pleasant Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School (0.6 miles) and Market Weighton Infant School (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.