Amotherby Community Primary School

Amotherby Community Primary School is a smaller-than-average local authority primary school that is performing well overall. This was a full inspection, not a first inspection, and leaders have worked effectively to address the issues raised previously. Pupils are proud of their school, feel safe, and behave exceptionally well. Attendance is high and persistent absence has fallen sharply. The school meets safeguarding standards, and parents are typically very positive about the further rigour in the curriculum. The quality of education is solid across the board. Pupils achieve well and outcomes have improved, with reading a notable strength. The curriculum is broad, well sequenced and helping pupils build on strong foundations, and early years children make a strong start. Pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils are well supported, and the personal development offer, including enrichment and wellbeing support, is carefully planned. The main improvements needed are to make teaching approaches more consistently precise for all pupils and to deepen pupils' knowledge and skills across the wider curriculum, where learning is not yet as secure as in core subjects.

Strengths

• Pupils’ attendance is high and persistent absence has fallen significantly.
• Behaviour around school is exemplary, with embedded routines and high expectations.
• Pupils have highly positive attitudes to learning and classrooms are calm and disruption-free.
• Bullying is rare and pupils feel safe and listened to.
• Pupils achieve well and national test outcomes have improved over time.
• Reading is taught with precision and pupils become proud, avid readers.
• The curriculum is broad, well sequenced and designed to help pupils connect learning over time.
• Children in the early years get a positive start through warm relationships and clear routines.
• Children with SEND are well supported, including through effective communication strategies and adaptations.
• Leaders take swift action to meet the needs of pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils.
• Leaders have effectively addressed the issues raised at the previous inspection.
• Governance is skilled and provides appropriate challenge and support.
• Staff workload and wellbeing are considered well, and staff are proud to be part of the team.
• The PSHE and personal development offer is coherently planned and includes useful enrichment and leadership opportunities.
• Pupils benefit from visits, clubs, careers week and an artist in residence.
• Parents are typically very positive about the school.

Areas for Improvement

• In some wider curriculum subjects, pupils’ knowledge is not as secure or detailed.
• Curriculum implementation is occasionally not precisely matched to pupils’ needs, so learning is not moved on or revisited as effectively as it could be.
• Teachers’ pedagogical choices are not yet highly consistent across all teaching.
• Pupils’ knowledge and skills across the wider curriculum are not yet as deep and connected as they could be.

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 Amotherby Community Primary School attended 96.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 6.3% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Amotherby 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 Amotherby Community Primary School had 19.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 12.4% of pupils at Amotherby Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.2% 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 Amotherby Community Primary School received £6,267 and spent £6,536 for each of its 185 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £100,000 (£541 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 Amotherby Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Amotherby Community Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Amotherby Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Amotherby Community Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Amotherby Community Primary School have?

Amotherby Community Primary School has 185 pupils on roll.

What age range does Amotherby Community Primary School cover?

Amotherby Community Primary School for pupils aged 5 to 11.

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

In 2025, 71% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Amotherby Community Primary School?

Amotherby Community Primary School is at Meadowfield, Amotherby, Malton, North Yorkshire, YO17 6TG.