Barrowcliff School
General Information
- Address: Ash Grove, Scarborough, YO12 6NQ – View on map
- Phone: 01723351767
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Mark Rogers
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 29 families put it first for 29 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 121
- % eligible for free school meals: 55.3%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (more mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 14% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 56% moved to another school, 44% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across North Yorkshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 11 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in North Yorkshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 8.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 23.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 11.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 7.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 9 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Vision impairment: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 30% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 31 percentage points below the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 30% against an expected 54%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 30%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 52% · Writing 39% · Maths 42% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 39%
- Average test scores: reading 101, maths 98
- Based on: 33 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 220th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =218Sharow Church of England Primary School31%
- =218Starbeck Primary Academy31%
- =220Barrowcliff School30%
- =220Barwic Parade Community Primary School, Selby30%
- =220Staithes, Seton Community Primary School30%
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21st of 223 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #19Barlby Bridge Community Primary SchoolGood
- #20Barlby Community Primary SchoolGood
- #21Barrowcliff SchoolGood
- #22Barton Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #23Beckwithshaw Community Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,937 (2024-25)
69th of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #67Husthwaite Church of England Primary School£9,086
- #68Trinity Academy Richmond£8,980
- #69Barrowcliff School£8,937
- #70St Peter's Brafferton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School£8,930
- #71South Otterington Church of England Primary School£8,927
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