Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby

Barwic Parade is a happy, safe community primary school where pupils respond well to high expectations and typically achieve well. The curriculum is broad and ambitious, teachers have secure subject knowledge, and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are quickly identified and fully included in learning. Reading and early years are particular strengths, with a well-established phonics scheme and a carefully structured environment from age two to Reception. Personal development is a high standard: pupils benefit from a wide range of enrichment, after-school clubs, community projects and opportunities to build confidence and resilience. Leaders and governors are ambitious and focused on continual improvement, staff development is having an impact, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The school was previously judged to require improvement and is now good across all key judgements; under the current framework, no overall effectiveness grade is given. The main area to improve is the use of retrieval activities in a minority of subjects. These activities are not always closely matched to the curriculum, so pupils in those subjects are less able to recall prior learning. The school should make these activities more precisely focused on the knowledge it wants pupils to remember.

Strengths

• Pupils feel happy and safe and respond well to clear routines and high expectations.
• The curriculum is broad and ambitious, with teachers demonstrating secure subject knowledge.
• Pupils with SEND are swiftly identified and fully included in the same curriculum as their peers.
• Phonics and early reading are delivered to a high standard, with strong support for parents.
• Early years provision is carefully structured from age two to Reception, with a strong focus on communication and language.
• Personal development is of a high standard, including spiritual, moral, social and cultural education.
• A wide range of after-school activities and strong pastoral support promote pupils' well-being.
• Community involvement is a high priority, including charity work and local projects.
• Leaders and governors have high expectations and a clear focus on continual improvement.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• In a minority of subjects, retrieval activities are not closely aligned to the curriculum, so pupils are less able to recall prior learning.

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 Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby attended 93.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 22.4% 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, 3.2% of pupils at Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby 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 Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby had 19.6 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, 10.9% of pupils at Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.7% 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 Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby received £8,746 and spent £8,594 for each of its 184 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £392,000 (£2,131 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 Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby is Good, from an inspection in July 2025.

When was Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby last inspected by Ofsted?

Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby was last inspected in July 2025.

How many pupils does Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby have?

Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby has 184 pupils on roll.

What age range does Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby cover?

Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 30% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby?

Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby is at Barwic Parade, Petre Avenue, Selby, North Yorkshire, YO8 8DJ.