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Salendine Nook High School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formKirklees, Yorkshire and the Humber · Huddersfield HD3 4GNTrust: Heritage Multi Academy TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
1,419of 1,436 places
Free school meals
21.8%
Year 11 cohort 2025
282
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 29 January 2025Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Salendine Nook High School (URN 107757, until 1 February 2012).

What the data says

Salendine Nook High School has no sixth form. Of the 271 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 55% moved to a sixth form college, 24% to a further education college and 8% started an apprenticeship.

Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 55% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.

Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 8% of leavers started one, roughly twice the England figure of 3%.

GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 50.9 against 46.1 across England and 46.4 in Kirklees, with 55% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).

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 Kirklees and England.

Salendine Nook High School
Kirklees
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureSalendine Nook High SchoolKirkleesEngland
Pupils in the cohort2715,003607,348
Any sustained destination93%92%92%
Stayed in education82%85%86%
— school sixth form4%16%34%
— sixth form college55%33%13%
— further education college24%35%37%
— other education0%1%2%
Apprenticeship8%5%3%
Employment3%2%3%
No sustained destination6%5%6%
Destination unknown1%3%3%

GCSE results 2025

MeasureSalendine Nook High SchoolKirkleesEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)50.946.446.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths55%47%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths75%66%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects64%38%41%
EBacc average point score4.724.064.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort27%31%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils41.435.634.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils54.351.250.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language22%22%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 Literature27999%86%21%21%81%
Mathematics27999%88%22%22%78%
English Language27999%89%19%20%80%
Combined Science17863%65%4%9%66%
Geography14652%41%28%25%73%
History13347%41%30%26%78%
Business Studies10136%18%25%20%76%
Chemistry9734%23%34%47%99%
Physics9734%23%33%46%99%
Biology9734%23%39%45%100%
Spanish9734%19%25%27%86%
French8229%18%20%29%80%
Design and Technology6322%11%11%23%87%
Physical Education4115%11%27%24%73%
Art and Design3512%7%54%24%97%
Photography3211%6%44%19%97%
Sociology2710%4%15%21%78%
Drama269%7%50%27%100%
Computer Science238%13%43%30%87%
Food Preparation and Nutrition217%8%24%21%57%
Citizenship Studies207%3%30%19%90%
Religious Studies197%31%63%32%89%
Textiles176%2%29%27%88%
Economics135%1%8%34%69%
Music114%5%18%33%73%
Persian21%0%77%
Japanese10%0%53%
Russian10%0%87%
Arabic10%1%47%
Urdu10%1%42%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Health Studies42
Computer Appreciation / Introduction34
Engineering Studies30
Childcare Skills20
Small Business Management18

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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.