Community special school

St Hugh's Special School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formNorth Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the Humber · Scunthorpe DN16 1NBSchool website
Pupils on roll
160of 138 places
Free school meals
50.6%
Year 11 cohort 2025
31
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding, 19 June 2024Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

St Hugh's Special School has no sixth form. Of the 30 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 3% moved to a sixth form college, 47% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

St Hugh's Special School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 1.4, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in North Lincolnshire and England.

St Hugh's Special School
North Lincolnshire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureSt Hugh's Special SchoolNorth LincolnshireEngland
Pupils in the cohort301,979607,348
Any sustained destination87%89%92%
Stayed in education87%81%86%
— school sixth form0%4%34%
— sixth form college3%37%13%
— further education college47%39%37%
— other education37%1%2%
Apprenticeship0%5%3%
Employment0%3%3%
No sustained destination7%8%6%
Destination unknown7%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureSt Hugh's Special SchoolNorth LincolnshireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)1.443.246.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%42%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%62%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%32%41%
EBacc average point score0.083.754.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort61%31%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils0.634.334.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils2.747.350.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language19%10%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
English Language826%89%0%20%0%
Mathematics723%88%0%22%14%

Other secondary schools in North Lincolnshire

Baysgarth School

Community school · 1,014 pupils

80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.9

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.