Hookstone Chase Primary School
General Information
- Address: Hookstone Chase, Harrogate, HG2 7DJ – View on map
- Phone: 01423886026
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr James Hughes
- Age range: 5-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 32 families put it first for 32 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 10 · 2024 8 · 2025 8 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 49
- % eligible for free school meals: 17.0%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 9% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 17.5% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 29% moved to another school, 71% 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: 4.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 11.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 16.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 23 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 14 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2013 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 42% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 19 percentage points below the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 49% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 49%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 66% · Writing 60% · Maths 48% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 62%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 100
- Based on: 50 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 196th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =192Killinghall Church of England Primary School43%
- =192Settle Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School43%
- =196Hookstone Chase Primary School42%
- =196Spofforth Church of England Controlled Primary School42%
- =196St George's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy42%
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87th of 223 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #85Hertford Vale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, StaxtonGood
- #86Hipswell Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #87Hookstone Chase Primary SchoolGood
- #88Huby Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #89Hunmanby Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,532 (2024-25)
245th of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #243Cayton Community Primary School£5,625
- #244Rossett Acre Primary School£5,547
- #245Hookstone Chase Primary School£5,532
- #246Sowerby Primary Academy£5,493
- #247St Peter's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy£5,437
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