Colburn Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire·DL9 4LS
Composite score
23.4
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#14,194
National rank
#1516
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#222
In North Yorkshire
Top 96%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
36%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
25 first choices, 26 places
First choices per place
0.96
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
33
any preference, for 26 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.14
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0020230.9320240.8220250.962026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Colburn Community Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
200
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
50.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
7.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
24.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,976
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Colburn Community Primary School

Colburn Community Primary School is a primary school in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 200 pupils aged 3 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 36% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 6.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Colburn Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 25 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 17.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 51% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Colburn Community 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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