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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

121 pupils out of 106 places At or near capacity
  • 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.

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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

SATs results over time

2022/232023/242024/2568%82%75%
This schoolNorth Yorkshire averageEngland Broadly steady No clear rise or fall since 2022/23 (changes this small are normal from one year group to the next). In 2024/25 this school was 14 percentage points above the North Yorkshire average (61%).

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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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