Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School

Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School has shown a commendable level of overall effectiveness, achieving a good rating across all inspected areas. The school has taken significant strides in enhancing the quality of education, particularly by refining its curriculums for reading, writing, and mathematics. Staff have high expectations for pupil behaviour, fostering a supportive and safe learning environment. Despite facing challenges with attendance and some shortcomings in the wider curriculum assessment, the school is viewed as a positive environment where pupils engage in learning and are encouraged to develop personal skills and confidence. This inspection marks the school's first evaluation since transitioning to an academy under the Ryedale Learning Trust, following its previous good judgement as a maintained school.

Strengths

• High expectations for pupil behaviour promote a calm and orderly environment.
• Strong support for disadvantaged pupils, including those with SEND.
• Extensive range of extra-curricular activities available to pupils.
• Effective phonics and early reading program resulting in improved pupil resilience in literacy.
• Significant enhancements in early years provision promoting independence.
• Clear systems for tracking and supporting pupil progress in core subjects.

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects, like mathematics, lack incisive teaching, affecting pupil learning.
• Wider curriculum assessment systems are underdeveloped, leaving gaps in understanding pupil knowledge.
• Inconsistent documentation in safeguarding records.

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 Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School attended 94.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 20.4% 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, 1.0% of pupils at Kirkbymoorside 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 Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School had 24.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 35.3% 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, 19.9% of pupils at Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.5% 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 2024–25 Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School received £7,154 and spent £7,362 for each of its 193 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £85,000 (£442 per pupil).

Across all 11 schools of Areté Learning Trust, income was £7,175 and spending £7,249 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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Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School is part of Areté Learning Trust, which runs 11 schools. The nearest others:

• Ryedale School York
• Sinnington Community Primary School York
• Helmsley Community Primary School York
• Norton School Malton
• Stokesley School Stokesley
• Mill Hill Primary School Northallerton
• Nunthorpe School & Sixth Form Middlesbrough
• Northallerton School & Sixth Form College Northallerton
• Broomfield School Northallerton
• Richmond School & Sixth Form College Richmond

What is Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2024.

When was Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School was last inspected in May 2024.

How many pupils does Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School have?

Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School has 181 pupils on roll.

What age range does Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School cover?

Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 44% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School?

Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School is at Westfields, Kirkbymoorside, York, North Yorkshire, YO62 6AG.