The Snaith School, Goole

Ofsted's report card from its 19 May 2026 inspection grades The Snaith School on 6 areas: 1 strong standard and 5 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Pupils at The Snaith School, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, attend well."

Achievement - Expected standard. "The school's commitment to inclusion ensures that pupils are typically supported well to achieve."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of the quality of the curriculum and teaching across the school."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Positive relationships across the school mean that staff know pupils well."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders, including governors and trustees, understand the school's context."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that there is a thoughtfully designed programme for pupils' personal development."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that highly effective teaching, including the skilful use of assessment to adapt approaches, is embedded across subjects and year groups"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, consistently achieve well, develop detailed knowledge and skills and are supported to produce high-quality work across the curriculum"; "Leaders should develop the use of detailed and insightful analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of the personal development provision, ensuring that pupils who face barriers to learning or wellbeing participate and benefit fully from this offer".

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include dance, drama, choir, STEM, cooking, Duke of Edinburgh and cadets.

In 2026, pupils at The Snaith School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.6, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 45.1 in East Riding of Yorkshire and 47 across England.

45% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 43% in East Riding of Yorkshire and 47% in England.

That is up from 46.3 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 38.1, against 49.9 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 11.8 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 22 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Art and Design and History.

For September 2026 entry, 187 families put The Snaith School as their first choice and 257 named it as one of their preferences, for 186 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 3 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The Snaith School is one of 12 schools run by The Education Alliance, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 46.6 in 2024/25.

Of the 178 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 82% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 46% to a further education college, 4% to an apprenticeship and 4% into work.

5.7% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Snaith Rail Stn, about 630 metres away (roughly a 8-minute walk).

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Snaith Pontefract Road, 110 metres away.

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

In August 2026, police recorded 14 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, other theft and anti-social behaviour. That is well below the typical figure around schools in East Riding of Yorkshire (31).

In 2024/25, The Snaith School issued 44 suspensions, 5.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to The Snaith School are Snaith Primary School (0.2 miles), Cowick Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School (1.5 miles) and Carlton Primary School (1.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.