Wheatcroft Community Primary School

Wheatcroft Community Primary School demonstrates a strong overall performance, maintaining a 'Good' rating across all inspection areas. The school fosters a nurturing environment where pupils feel safe, happy, and engaged in their learning. With a focus on a broad and balanced curriculum, pupils make good progress, particularly in early years and reading, thanks to dedicated staff and effective pastoral support. The school is making positive strides, with parents and staff expressing high satisfaction levels regarding the school's caring atmosphere and community involvement. However, there are notable areas for improvement, particularly in assessment strategies and monitoring the effectiveness of the curriculum. While most pupils behave well, the school acknowledges that persistent absence rates are too high, and checks on pupils' understanding are not sufficiently developed. Despite these challenges, leaders are committed to enhancing educational quality and have a clear vision for future improvements.

Strengths

• Strong emphasis on a nurturing community and effective pastoral support.
• High-quality education with a broad and balanced curriculum.
• Children in early years benefit from an ambitious and well-planned curriculum.
• Pupils receive support to build a love for reading.
• Positive and productive learning environment with low instances of bullying.
• High parental satisfaction regarding the school's caring environment.

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment strategies across the curriculum are not fully developed.
• Lack of precise checks on pupils' understanding of the curriculum.
• Some pupils with SEND do not have well-matched subject-specific targets.
• Persistent absence rates are too high.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Wheatcroft Community Primary School attended 93.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 21.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 3.4% of pupils at Wheatcroft Community Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Wheatcroft Community Primary School had 22.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 17.9% of pupils at Wheatcroft Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Wheatcroft Community Primary School received £7,531 and spent £7,192 for each of its 201 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £117,000 (-£584 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Wheatcroft Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Wheatcroft Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2024.

When was Wheatcroft Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Wheatcroft Community Primary School was last inspected in January 2024.

How many pupils does Wheatcroft Community Primary School have?

Wheatcroft Community Primary School has 201 pupils on roll.

What age range does Wheatcroft Community Primary School cover?

Wheatcroft Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Wheatcroft Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 36% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Wheatcroft Community Primary School?

Wheatcroft Community Primary School is at Holbeck Hill, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 3BW.