Sherburn High School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school The headteacher is uncompromising in her drive to improve pupils' progress and all leaders set high expectations for pupils' behaviour and achievement. As a result, most pupils across the school are making good progress from their starting points.

Governors are very knowledgeable and, since the previous inspection, have taken prompt action to improve their skills. They carry out their duties successfully and have a detailed understanding of the school's strengths and areas for improvement. Pupils make very good progress in mathematics as a result of consistently strong teaching.

Leaders have taken decisive and successful action to improve... the progress made by disadvantaged pupils. The school's systems for assessing pupils' progress are very effective. They show teachers, pupils and parents how well pupils are doing in each subject and what they need to do next.

Relationships between pupils and staff are very positive. There is a strong culture of support in the school. Pupils enjoy helping each other in class and during tutor period.

The sixth form is now good because teaching is effective and leaders track learners' progress more robustly. Learners in the sixth form make similar progress to others nationally. Staff are overwhelming supportive of the changes brought about by senior leaders and staff morale is high.

Staff are proud of the way in which the school has improved. They are ambitious to improve further. Pupils behave well.

They show positive attitudes to learning and attendance is above average. Since the last inspection, teaching has improved strongly in most subjects, but there is still some variability in quality, particularly at key stage 3. At times, teachers provide insufficient challenge for the most able pupils.

Consequently, they do not make as much progress as they could. Leaders' actions to engage boys in their learning are having a positive effect. However, differences remain between the boys' and girls' progress, and boys' writing is generally weaker than girls' writing.

Not all subject leaders are effective in ensuring that teaching in their areas of responsibility leads to good progress.

Information about this school

Sherburn High School is smaller than the average-sized school with a sixth form. The majority of pupils are White British.

The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is below average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is below average. Some learners in the school's sixth form attend Tadcaster Grammar School for some of their courses.

The school makes use of the local authority's pupil referral unit. The school meets the government's minimum expectations for the performance of secondary schools. The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website.

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