Hellifield Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Skipton, North Yorkshire·BD23 4HA
Composite score
32.5
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#12,879
National rank
#1371
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#204
In North Yorkshire
Top 88%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
100.0
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
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
3 first choices, 4 places
First choices per place
0.75
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
12
any preference, for 4 places
Applications from another council area
8%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.25
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320221.0020231.0020241.0020250.752026

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

Every child who put Hellifield 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
68
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
2.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
3.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
5.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,506
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Hellifield Community Primary School is a primary school serving Skipton, North Yorkshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 68 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 50% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 10.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to 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 105 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Hellifield Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 3 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 3.9%. There are about 16.6 pupils per teacher. Hellifield 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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