School Summary

Queen Ethelburga's College


Boys: 412
Girls: 413
Total Pupils: 825
Opened: 01-01-1912
Ofsted:
Headteacher: Daniel Machin
Queen Ethelburga's College
Thorpe Underwood Hall
York
North Yorkshire
YO26 9SS
Telephone: 01423333300
Website:

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Address3: Thorpe Underwood
AdministrativeWard (code): E05011339
AdministrativeWard (name): Ouseburn
AdmissionsPolicy (code): 2
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Boarders (code): 3
Boarders (name): Boarding school
BoardingEstablishment (name): Has boarders
CCF (name): Not applicable
CHNumber:
CensusDate: 20-01-2022
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County (name): North Yorkshire
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Diocese (code): 0000
Diocese (name): Not applicable
DistrictAdministrative (code): 9999
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EBD (name): Not applicable
Easting: 446406
EdByOther (name): Not applicable
EstablishmentAccredited (code): 0
EstablishmentAccredited (name): Not applicable
EstablishmentName: Queen Ethelburga's College
EstablishmentNumber: 6014
EstablishmentStatus (code): 1
EstablishmentStatus (name): Open
EstablishmentTypeGroup (code): 3
EstablishmentTypeGroup (name): Independent schools
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GOR (code): D
GOR (name): Yorkshire and the Humber
GSSLACode (name): X999999
Gender (code): 3
Gender (name): Mixed
HeadFirstName: Daniel
HeadLastName: Machin
HeadPreferredJobTitle: Headteacher
HeadTitle (name): Mr
InspectorateName (name): ISI
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LA (code): 815
LA (name): North Yorkshire
LSOA (code): E01027696
LSOA (name): Harrogate 016D
LastChangedDate: 22-05-2023
Locality: Thorpe Underwood Estate
MSOA (code): E02005776
MSOA (name): Harrogate 016
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Northing: 459389
NumberOfBoys: 412
NumberOfGirls: 413
NumberOfPupils: 825
NurseryProvision (name): Has Nursery Classes
OfficialSixthForm (code): 1
OfficialSixthForm (name): Has a sixth form
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OfstedSpecialMeasures (code): 0
OfstedSpecialMeasures (name): Not applicable
OpenDate: 01-01-1912
ParliamentaryConstituency (code): E14000917
ParliamentaryConstituency (name): Selby and Ainsty
PercentageFSM: 0
PhaseOfEducation (code): 0
PhaseOfEducation (name): Not applicable
PlacesPRU:
Postcode: YO26 9SS
PreviousEstablishmentNumber: 6039
PreviousLA (code): 927
PreviousLA (name): Pre LGR (1996) North Yorkshire
PropsName: The Collegiate Foundation
QABName (code): 0
QABName (name): Not applicable
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RSCRegion (name): North of England
ReasonEstablishmentClosed (code): 00
ReasonEstablishmentClosed (name): Not applicable
ReasonEstablishmentOpened (code): 00
ReasonEstablishmentOpened (name): Not applicable
ReligiousCharacter (code): 06
ReligiousCharacter (name): None
ReligiousEthos (name): None
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SENNoStat: 21
SENPRU (name): Not applicable
SENStat: 0
SchoolCapacity: 1150
SchoolSponsorFlag (name): Not applicable
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SchoolWebsite: www.qe.org
Section41Approved (name): Not approved
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SpecialClasses (code): 2
SpecialClasses (name): No Special Classes
StatutoryHighAge: 19
StatutoryLowAge: 2
Street: Thorpe Underwood Hall
TeenMoth (name): Not applicable
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TelephoneNum: 01423333300
Town: York
TrustSchoolFlag (code): 0
TrustSchoolFlag (name): Not applicable
Trusts (code):
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TypeOfEstablishment (code): 11
TypeOfEstablishment (name): Other independent school
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UKPRN: 10005336
UPRN: 200000644238
URN: 121743
UrbanRural (code): F1
UrbanRural (name): (England/Wales) Rural hamlet and isolated dwellings
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reviews: [{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"8 months ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"As a **international** student, the place is terrible, I paid around \u00c2\u00a350k for a single term. The food is tremendous and made me vomit twice in the same week due to food poisoning, The teachers are decent at best and do not teach you any techniques to memorize information. Terrible Terrible College.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"As a **international** student, the place is terrible, I paid around \u00c2\u00a350k for a single term. The food is tremendous and made me vomit twice in the same week due to food poisoning, The teachers are decent at best and do not teach you any techniques to memorize information. Terrible Terrible College.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Nea Nillson","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/108385282030418948955\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a-\/AD_cMMRE8OTq0EhkX5xmYjCJvP1ttXE-wfEuCPAkC6imQmjLgw=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2022-12-09T21:12:50Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"absolutely horrible, a complete disaster. DO NOT come here.\neverything is bad except that the school is big, but arent allowed to use the court at all\nteachers CANNOT teach and they except you to have learned everything from GCSE. then why do alot of students come here? they delete bad reviews and only put college's grade results and not faculty.\ndont be tricked into the ads. this is a complete waste.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"absolutely horrible, a complete disaster. DO NOT come here.\neverything is bad except that the school is big, but arent allowed to use the court at all\nteachers CANNOT teach and they except you to have learned everything from GCSE. then why do alot of students come here? they delete bad reviews and only put college's grade results and not faculty.\ndont be tricked into the ads. this is a complete waste.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Brianna Woods","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/106389477456648630437\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AAcHTtc33bZZwJlRBKDzm-gfYIv-W3y4XXjvqexRS-srEhna=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-10-03T18:14:20Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":5,"text":{"text":"I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve worked here 7 years. I can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t see myself anywhere else. So many positives about working here: lovely staff, great children of all cultures, various perks being a private school and a great work environment.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve worked here 7 years. I can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t see myself anywhere else. So many positives about working here: lovely staff, great children of all cultures, various perks being a private school and a great work environment.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Toph","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/110441492684793172409\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AAcHTtd5WWhFDDbxGSj_hpK3gnVPF9-Z8orwQ5OT_c9uvyV805M=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-12-15T11:23:08Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"2 years ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"Understaffed and overworked. Too much focus on $\u00c2\u00a3\u00e2\u0082\u00ac than welfare of their students. Most expensive independent school in the UK but address a letter about your child as 'Dear Parent'!!!! Poor comms, no information provided on instances in boarding until either too late or already received punishment. Feel sorry for house staff. School is badly run and seriously mismanaged. Needs a complete overhaul....do not be fooled by the Harry Potter look on the exterior....inside it is rotten to the core.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"Understaffed and overworked. Too much focus on $\u00c2\u00a3\u00e2\u0082\u00ac than welfare of their students. Most expensive independent school in the UK but address a letter about your child as 'Dear Parent'!!!! Poor comms, no information provided on instances in boarding until either too late or already received punishment. Feel sorry for house staff. School is badly run and seriously mismanaged. Needs a complete overhaul....do not be fooled by the Harry Potter look on the exterior....inside it is rotten to the core.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Karl Bardsley","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/113647002367092139968\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AAcHTtdU8t0ngcM0hnidLM6jQBRNarTuEeeH9jNQZnX5eRXD=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-06-02T20:44:03Z"},{"relativePublishTimeDescription":"a year ago","rating":1,"text":{"text":"i am speaking from experience as i was a former student in this school.\n\nthe school has a poor quality of a levels education and definitely does not live up to the high standard quality that ads show.\n\nin terms of food, a lot of students lose a lot of weight as the proportion of the food is just horrible and makes no sense. why would you serve a grown teenager to eating small portions of meal with no balanced diet?\n\nin terms of boarding students, alot of them hate it here. a lot of chinese mainlanders and russians and very less international students from other countries. the mainlanders vape in their room, hide it in their drawers and are incredibly rude to their rommates. usually, in this case, you would want to request to change rooms, BUT, the houseparents will always say no. so, you'll be stuck in this nightmare for a long time.\n\na lot of the students had only studied here due to agency recommendations and consist persuasion.","languageCode":"en"},"originalText":{"text":"i am speaking from experience as i was a former student in this school.\n\nthe school has a poor quality of a levels education and definitely does not live up to the high standard quality that ads show.\n\nin terms of food, a lot of students lose a lot of weight as the proportion of the food is just horrible and makes no sense. why would you serve a grown teenager to eating small portions of meal with no balanced diet?\n\nin terms of boarding students, alot of them hate it here. a lot of chinese mainlanders and russians and very less international students from other countries. the mainlanders vape in their room, hide it in their drawers and are incredibly rude to their rommates. usually, in this case, you would want to request to change rooms, BUT, the houseparents will always say no. so, you'll be stuck in this nightmare for a long time.\n\na lot of the students had only studied here due to agency recommendations and consist persuasion.","languageCode":"en"},"authorAttribution":{"displayName":"Miku Tanaka","uri":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/contrib\/103776661270344374243\/reviews","photoUri":"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/a\/AAcHTteMPmQjsnkSjprvrL_i9nDBTelfg5FhUuKrxbb_SebI=s128-c0x00000000-cc-rp-mo"},"publishTime":"2021-11-26T03:13:36Z"}]