Crakehall Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: The Green, Crakehall, Bedale, DL8 1HP – View on map
- Phone: 01677422515
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Mike White
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 11 families put it first for 12 places – 9 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 11 · 2025 10 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 9
- % eligible for free school meals: 7.4%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 1% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 83% moved to another school, 17% 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: 3.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 5.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 17.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 10 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 75% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 6% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 14 percentage points above the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 74% against an expected 69%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 74%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 81% · Writing 88% · Maths 81% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 75%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 102
- Based on: 16 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 50th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =46Sherburn in Elmet, Athelstan Community Primary School76%
- =50Appleton Roebuck Primary School75%
- =50Crakehall Church of England Primary School75%
- =50Hawes Primary School75%
- =50Kirk Smeaton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School75%
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50th of 223 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #48Cowling Community Primary SchoolGood
- #49Cracoe and Rylstone Voluntary Controlled Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #50Crakehall Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #51Crayke Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #52Croft Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil, and how this school compares to others nearby, will appear here once we've linked in official DfE spending data.
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