Inspire Academy
Inspire Academy is an independent special school in York for boys and girls aged 11 to 16. It has 24 pupils and room for 40.
Cornlands Road, Acomb, York, YO24 3WZ0754 891 5677inspireacademyyork.co.ukMr Rickie Wilson headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet. That is normal for a school that opened in 2025: new schools usually get their first inspection within three years.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to York council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| York High School | Academy | 50 m | 750 | Good 2022 | 15 | Compare |
| Hob Moor Community Primary Academy | Academy | 620 m | 243 | Good 2022 | 10 | Compare |
| Hob Moor Oaks Academy | Academy | 620 m | 140 | Good 2022 | – | Compare |
| Westfield Primary Community School | Council | 680 m | 498 | Good 2023 | 10 | Compare |
| Acomb Primary School | Academy | 0.7 miles | 312 | Outstanding 2023 | 86 | Compare |
| Woodthorpe Primary School | Academy | 0.9 miles | 450 | Outstanding 2024 | 83 | Compare |
| Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy | Academy | 0.9 miles | 415 | Good 2024 | 62 | Compare |
| Dringhouses Primary School | Council | 0.9 miles | 312 | Good 2022 | 77 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Inspire Academy a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Inspire Academy yet.
How many pupils does Inspire Academy have?
24 pupils aged 11 to 16 were on the roll in January 2024. It has 40 places, so it is 60% full.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Cornlands Road, Acomb, York, YO24 3WZ
- Telephone
- 0754 891 5677
- Website
- inspireacademyyork.co.uk
- Headteacher
- Mr Rickie Wilson
- Type of school
- Independent special school (Other independent special school, special schools)
- Phase
- Special school, ages 11-16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- York
- Ward
- Westfield
- Constituency
- York Central
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 23 July 2025 (new provision)
- URN
- 151837 · LAESTAB 8166015
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.