Friarage Community Academy
General Information
- Address: Friargate, Scarborough, YO11 1HS – View on map
- Phone: 01723628610
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Headteacher Cheryl Cappleman
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 22 families put it first for 22 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 9 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 136
- % eligible for free school meals: 58.6%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (more mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 47% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 12.5% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 50% moved to another school, 50% 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: 7.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 23.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 10 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Requires improvement 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 51% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 10 percentage points below the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 44% against an expected 55%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 44%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 66% · Writing 60% · Maths 68% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 49%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 102
- Based on: 47 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 168th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =166Alverton Primary School52%
- =166South Milford Primary School52%
- =168Friarage Community Academy51%
- =168Richmond Methodist Primary School51%
- =170All Saints Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy50%
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215th of 223 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #213Broomfield SchoolRequires improvement
- #214Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #215Friarage Community AcademyRequires improvement
- #216Hackness Church of England Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #217Husthwaite Church of England Primary SchoolRequires improvement
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,469 (2024-25)
124th of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #122Michael Syddall Church of England Aided Primary School£7,536
- #123New Park Primary Academy£7,522
- #124Friarage Community Academy£7,469
- #125Cambrai Primary School£7,441
- #126All Saints Church of England School£7,432
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