Burnsall Voluntary Aided Primary School
General Information
- Address: Burnsall, Skipton, BD23 6BP – View on map
- Phone: 01756720273
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Claire Greenwood and Wendy Thompson
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 3 families put it first for 3 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 7 · 2024 8 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Christian
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 5
- % eligible for free school meals: 10.6%
- Pupil mix: 0 in 10 (less mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 38.8% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 68% moved to another school, 32% 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
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: 7.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 22.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 12.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 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: 86% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 25 percentage points above the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 80%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 86% · Writing 100% · Maths 86% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 86%
- Average test scores: reading 111, maths 105
- Based on: 7 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 15th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =12Husthwaite Church of England Primary School88%
- #14Bolton-On-Swale St Mary's CofE Primary School87%
- =15Burnsall Voluntary Aided Primary School86%
- =15Darley Primary School86%
- =15Ripley Endowed Church of England School86%
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36th of 223 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #34Brotherton and Byram Community Primary AcademyGood
- #35Burneston Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolGood
- #36Burnsall Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolGood
- #37Burton Salmon Community Primary SchoolGood
- #38Camblesforth Community Primary AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £10,852 (2024-25)
34th of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #32Long Marston Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£10,984
- #33Settrington All Saints' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£10,914
- #34Burnsall Voluntary Aided Primary School£10,852
- #35Follifoot Church of England Primary School£10,822
- #36Sand Hutton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£10,768
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