Scawthorpe Sunnyfields Primary School

Community school·Primary school Doncaster·DN5 9EW
Composite score
52.6
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#6,317
National rank
#624
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#38
In Doncaster
Top 43%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
63%
% achieving higher RWM
10%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
95%
42 first choices, 40 places
First choices per place
1.05
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
68
any preference, for 40 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.50
00.511.52
1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Doncaster does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Scawthorpe Sunnyfields Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
318
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
25.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
7.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
19.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,039
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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School overview

Scawthorpe Sunnyfields Primary School is a primary school serving Doncaster, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 318 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. 63% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 13.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 43% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 104 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 10% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Scawthorpe Sunnyfields Primary School is oversubscribed: about 10 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 42 first choices for 40 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 25.9 pupils per teacher. Scawthorpe Sunnyfields Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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