New Park Primary Academy

New Park Primary Academy is a welcoming and friendly school that continues to demonstrate good performance overall. The school supports a significant number of pupils who join at various points during the academic year, helping them settle quickly through initiatives like pupil buddies. Most students enjoy their time at school, benefiting from high expectations and a nurturing environment which positively involves parents in their children's education. Although leadership has managed the recent transitions well, some areas of the curriculum require further refinement, particularly in reading strategies and depth of knowledge across subjects.

Strengths

• Welcoming and supportive environment for new pupils.
• High expectations and nurturing ethos contribute to pupil well-being.
• Ambitious curriculum with clearly mapped knowledge and skills.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Strong focus on early years language and mathematics development.
• Enthusiastic leadership with high staff morale.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistencies in how knowledge and skills are taught across parts of the curriculum.
• Some reading strategies do not effectively develop fluency for younger pupils.
• Older pupils not consistently guided towards suitable books for their reading stage.

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 New Park Primary Academy attended 93.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.9% 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, 1.6% of pupils at New Park Primary Academy 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 New Park Primary Academy had 16.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.3% 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, 17.6% of pupils at New Park Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 10.9% 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 2024–25 New Park Primary Academy received £6,926 and spent £8,071 for each of its 180 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £70,000 (-£389 per pupil).

Across all 15 schools of Northern Star Academies Trust, income was £7,474 and spending £7,332 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Harrogate · North Yorkshire local authority: places and applications

New Park Primary Academy is part of Northern Star Academies Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• Harrogate High School Harrogate
• Willow Tree Community Primary School Harrogate
• Starbeck Primary Academy Harrogate
• Hookstone Chase Primary School Harrogate
• Lapage Primary School and Nursery Bradford
• Byron Primary School Bradford
• Meadow Bank Community School Bradford
• Eastwood Community School Keighley
• Parkwood Primary School Keighley
• Victoria Primary School Keighley

What is New Park Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for New Park Primary Academy is Good, from an inspection in March 2024.

When was New Park Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

New Park Primary Academy was last inspected in March 2024.

How many pupils does New Park Primary Academy have?

New Park Primary Academy has 165 pupils on roll.

What age range does New Park Primary Academy cover?

New Park Primary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are New Park Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 65% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is New Park Primary Academy?

New Park Primary Academy is at Skipton Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 3HF.