Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School

Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary is a safe, welcoming and inclusive school where pupils are valued and well supported. Inspectors found the school’s personal development offer to be particularly impressive: it is broad, carefully tailored, and enriched with residential trips, music tuition and sporting events. Pupils benefit from strong relationships, calm behaviour, very rare bullying, and attendance that is well above national averages. Early years children get a positive start, and inclusion and pastoral support are strong.

Strengths

• Impressive, broad personal development curriculum tailored to all pupils and promoting ambition.
• Extensive enrichment, including residential trips, music tuition and regular sporting events for all pupils.
• Strong relationships and safety education that prepare pupils well for life beyond school.
• Attendance is well above national averages, with rigorous analysis and effective support for families.
• Calm, positive behaviour underpinned by warm, trusting relationships; bullying is very rare.
• Ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum that prioritises reading while valuing music and art.
• Teachers generally plan clear sequences of learning and help pupils revisit and retain prior knowledge.
• Targeted support in phonics is highly effective in helping pupils achieve success.
• Early years provides a very positive start with warm relationships, structured routines and effective phonics teaching.
• Inclusive culture with strong pastoral support and well-trained staff who adapt learning to individual needs.
• Pupil premium funding is targeted well, and disadvantaged pupils achieve broadly in line with their peers.
• Positive, inclusive leadership with pupils at the centre and staff feeling valued and supported.
• Governors support and challenge leaders effectively despite recent changes in personnel.
• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture and pupils feeling safe.
• Pupils enjoy school, speak confidently about their learning and show curiosity across subjects.

Areas for Improvement

• Some key stage 2 pupils have gaps in their learning and do not achieve as well as they could.
• Older pupils have not yet benefited from recent improvements to the mathematics curriculum.
• Some pupils do not achieve in line with national expectations, particularly in mathematics and writing.
• Gaps in pupils’ foundational knowledge in mathematics and writing have not always been recognised quickly enough in lessons.
• Some aspects of early years independent learning activities and outdoor provision lack clarity and purpose.
• Some early years staff are unclear about the intended learning in independent and outdoor activities, limiting how deeply they extend children’s understanding.
• The curriculum is not delivered as well in a few areas.
• Assessment information is not yet used consistently enough to address gaps in mathematics and writing.
• High-quality adult interactions in early years need closer monitoring to maximise children’s knowledge, vocabulary and ideas.

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 Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School attended 95.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.0% 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 Selby, Longman's Hill 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 Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School had 23.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 11.9% 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, 15.0% of pupils at Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.5% 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 Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School received £6,074 and spent £6,215 for each of its 200 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £142,000 (£710 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 Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in February 2026.

When was Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School was last inspected in February 2026.

How many pupils does Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School have?

Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School has 200 pupils on roll.

What age range does Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School cover?

Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School?

Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School is at Myrtle Avenue, Brayton, Selby, North Yorkshire, YO8 9BG.