Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Church Lane, Ripon, HG4 2ES – View on map
- Phone: 01765602858
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Marco Ramsay
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 20 families put it first for 19 places – 11 for every 10 places. 95% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area.
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 71
- % eligible for free school meals: 21.6%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (more mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 21% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 24.8% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% 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: 3.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 7.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 21 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 15 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 11 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 10 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card February 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching Needs attention
- Achievement Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Needs attention
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Requires improvement (2023). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 62% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 52% against an expected 65%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 52%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 79% · Writing 72% · Maths 71% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 83%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 103
- Based on: 58 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
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SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 115th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =109St Peter's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy63%
- =109Thornton Dale CofE Primary School63%
- =115Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School62%
- =115Sheriff Hutton Primary School62%
- =115St Robert's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy62%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,063 (2024-25)
257th of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #255South Milford Primary School£5,180
- #256Aspin Park Academy£5,098
- #257Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School£5,063
- #258Brayton Church of England Primary School£5,030
- #259Cononley Primary School£4,524
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