Friarage Community Academy

Friarage Community Primary School is underperforming overall, having received a rating of 'requires improvement'. While the school ensures that pupils feel safe and happy, and implements effective safeguarding measures, it struggles with pupil achievement and quality of education. Despite strong leadership and commitment to improving behavior, the academic outcomes don't currently reflect the school's aspirations. Significant strengths include the encouraging environment in early years and support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), yet areas such as curriculum implementation and assessment practices need urgent attention.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and are proud to attend the school.
• Effective safeguarding procedures are in place.
• Positive attitudes towards reading are fostered.
• Strong focus on communication and language in early years.
• Pupils display tolerance and understanding towards diverse cultures.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils do not achieve as well as expected in key stages 1 and 2.
• Some subject curriculums require further development and consistency.
• Assessment is not effectively used to address gaps in pupils' learning.
• High rates of persistent absence among pupils.

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 Friarage Community Academy attended 92.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 23.6% 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, 4.5% of pupils at Friarage Community Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was 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 Friarage Community Academy had 20.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.7% 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, 14.5% of pupils at Friarage Community Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.6% 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 Friarage Community Academy received £8,096 and spent £7,753 for each of its 266 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £388,000 (£1,461 per pupil).

Across all 62 schools of Delta Academies Trust, income was £7,459 and spending £7,562 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 Scarborough · North Yorkshire local authority: places and applications

Friarage Community Academy is part of Delta Academies Trust, which runs 62 schools. The nearest others:

• Scarborough University Technical College Scarborough
• Scalby Academy Scarborough
• Newby and Scalby Academy Scarborough
• Filey Academy Filey
• Lady Lumley's Academy Pickering
• The Parks Primary Academy Hull
• Mersey Primary Academy Hull
• Hull Trinity House Academy Hull
• Estcourt Primary Academy Hull
• Craven Primary Academy Hull

What is Friarage Community Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Friarage Community Academy is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in March 2024.

When was Friarage Community Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Friarage Community Academy was last inspected in March 2024.

How many pupils does Friarage Community Academy have?

Friarage Community Academy has 249 pupils on roll.

What age range does Friarage Community Academy cover?

Friarage Community Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Friarage Community Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 51% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Friarage Community Academy?

Friarage Community Academy is at Friargate, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 1HS.