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Every address in York is linked to a catchment secondary school. Type your postcode to see which one — and, beside it, what actually happened to everyone who applied to each York secondary in the last round: how many places there were, how many families named the school first, and how many were turned down.
Being in a catchment does not reserve a place. It gives you priority under the school's admissions rules. The figures here are the council's own, so you can see how far that priority went last time instead of guessing.
Year 7 · September 2027
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A catchment is a priority, not a place
Living in a catchment area gives you priority at that school under its admissions rules. It does not reserve a place, and the council says so in its own words. How far the priority gets you depends on how many other children apply — which is what the figures below are for.
You have to apply, every time. A child is never put into their catchment school automatically, not even a sibling of a child already there.
These are the figures City of York Council published for the 2026 round — the last one where every place has been offered. They describe what happened that year. They are not a prediction, and a school that had room one year can fill the next.
| School | Places | Named first | Refused | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Saints Roman Catholic School | 178 | 234 | 70 | It filled up. 70 applications were refused, and no place at all went on distance from home to school — so it was full before it reached children who had no priority under its earlier criteria. |
| Archbishop Holgate's CE School | 300 | 312 | 31 | It filled up. 31 applications were refused, but 25 places went on distance from home to school — so some children from outside the catchment were offered places. |
| Fulford School | 300 | 318 | 31 | It filled up. 31 applications were refused, but 33 places went on distance from home to school — so some children from outside the catchment were offered places. |
| Huntington School | 239 | 278 | 48 | It filled up. 48 applications were refused, but 1 place went on distance from home to school — so some children from outside the catchment were offered places. |
| Joseph Rowntree School | 210 | 168 | 0 | Everyone who named this school was offered a place, and 11 places were still free afterwards. |
| Manor CE Academy | 240 | 204 | 0 | Everyone who named this school was offered a place, and 12 places were still free afterwards. |
| Millthorpe School |
A postcode covers a handful of addresses and a boundary can run between them. If it matters, ask — they will check the specific address for you.
School Admissions, Inclusive Education Service
Catchment boundaries: City of York Council's own map service, published as open data under the Open Government Licence v2.0, containing OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2017 (Ordnance Survey 100020818). Postcode locations: Ordnance Survey and ONS via postcodes.io, Open Government Licence v3.0.
| 210 |
| 182 |
| 0 |
| Everyone who named this school was offered a place, and 12 places were still free afterwards. |
| Vale of York Academy | 150 | 115 | 0 | Everyone who named this school was offered a place, and 23 places were still free afterwards. |
| York High School | 150 | 125 | 0 | Everyone who named this school was offered a place, and 19 places were still free afterwards. |
The numbers count applications, not children: one child can name up to five schools, so the same family appears in several rows.
Source: City of York Council — Open Government Licence v2.0, checked 24 August 2026 (today).