Filey Academy
Muston Road, Filey, YO14 0HG
- Phase
- Secondary
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Trust
- DELTA ACADEMIES TRUST
- Headteacher
- Miss Hayley Pegg
- Sponsor
- Delta Academies Trust
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton
- Setting
- Larger rural: Further from a major town or city
- Capacity
- 855
- Pupils on roll
- 461
- URN
- 149205
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Telephone
- 01723628608
About this school
Filey Academy is a secondary academy in Filey. It teaches children aged 11 to 16 and has 461 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Seeing a school for yourself shows what no page can, so arrange a visit before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 4 (GCSEs)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 4 | 84 | 86 | 66 |
| Attainment 8 score | 34.5 | 39.1 | 35.7 |
| Progress 8 score | -0.62 -0.93 to -0.31 | -0.27 -0.57 to +0.03 | - |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 25% | 33.7% | 45.5% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 51% | 61.6% | 57.6% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate | 37% | 34.9% | 36.4% |
| English Baccalaureate average point score | 3.1 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
Progress 8 is paused nationally for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 school years. Those pupils sat no key stage 2 tests during the Covid pandemic, so there is no starting point to measure progress from. A blank figure here is not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Filey Academy has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | North Yorkshire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 34.5 | 41.9 | 39.8 |
| 2023/24 | 39.1 | 41.8 | 39.5 |
| 2024/25 | 35.7 | 40.4 | 39 |
Department for Education KS4 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 12.8% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 13.5% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 13.1% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 440 |
| 2023/24 | 455 |
| 2024/25 | 449 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Filey Academy compares
Filey Academy ranked 39th of 41 secondary schools in North Yorkshire for Attainment 8 in 2024/25. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 28% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 3% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | Attainment 8 (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 35.7 | 13.1% | 34.7% | 461 | — |
| George Pindar School | 33.4 | 14.2% | 39.6% | 730 | 4.3 miles |
| Scarborough University Technical College | 44 | 8.9% | 22.1% | 275 | 6.4 miles |
| St Augustine's Catholic School - a Catholic voluntary academy | 48.9 | 7.2% | 19.7% | 610 | 6.9 miles |
| Graham School | 38.3 | 13.4% | 37.5% | 893 | 7.6 miles |
| Scalby Academy | 48.3 | 10.8% | 28.1% | 980 | 8.1 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 34.74%
- English as an additional language
- 2%
- Overall absence
- 13.11%
- Persistent absence
- 35.92%
Location
Nearby schools
-
George Pindar School4.3 miles
Secondary · Scarborough
-
Scarborough University Technical College6.4 miles
Secondary · Scarborough
-
St Augustine's Catholic School - a Catholic voluntary academy6.9 miles
Secondary · Scarborough
-
Graham School7.6 miles
Secondary · Scarborough
-
Scalby Academy8.1 miles
Secondary · Scarborough
Other schools in Filey
- Filey Church of England Nursery and Infants Academy Primary
- Filey Junior School Primary
- Hunmanby Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Filey Academy teach?
- Filey Academy teaches children aged 11 to 16. It is a secondary school in Filey.
- Who is the headteacher of Filey Academy?
- The headteacher of Filey Academy is Miss Hayley Pegg, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Filey Academy last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Filey Academy, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Filey Academy?
- Filey Academy has 461 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 11 to 16.
- Is Filey Academy full?
- Filey Academy has capacity for 855 pupils and 461 on roll (54%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Filey Academy a faith school?
- No. Filey Academy has no designated religious character.
- Who runs Filey Academy?
- Filey Academy is part of DELTA ACADEMIES TRUST. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- How have Filey Academy's results changed over recent years?
- Its Attainment 8 score was 34.5 in 2022/23 and 35.7 in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Filey Academy rank locally?
- Filey Academy ranked 39th of 41 secondary schools in North Yorkshire for Attainment 8. Its Attainment 8 score was higher than 28% of England secondary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 3% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Filey Academy's absence rate?
- Filey Academy's overall absence rate is 13.1% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Filey Academy's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Filey Academy's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 3 July 2026.