Marshlands Primary School
General Information
- Address: Hall Road, Old Goole, Goole, DN14 5UE – View on map
- Phone: 01405765094
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs S Tang
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 24 families put it first for 26 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 9 · 2025 11 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 83
- % eligible for free school meals: 41.9%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (more mixed than the East Riding of Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 24% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15.4% a year (East Riding of Yorkshire 12.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 33% moved to another school, 67% 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 East Riding of Yorkshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 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 East Riding of 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: 6.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 25 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 9 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 39% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 2% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 18 percentage points below the East Riding of Yorkshire average (57%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 44% against an expected 54%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 44%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 51% · Writing 59% · Maths 49% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 55%
- Average test scores: reading 99, maths 99
- Based on: 49 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: 95th of 107 junior and primary schools in the area
- #93Parkside Primary School42%
- #94Holme-upon-Spalding Moor Primary School40%
- #95Marshlands Primary School39%
- =96Dunswell Primary School38%
- =96Hornsea Burton Primary School38%
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42nd of 89 primary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #40Leconfield Primary SchoolGood
- #41Lockington Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #42Marshlands Primary SchoolGood
- #43Melbourne Primary SchoolGood
- #44Middleton-on-the-Wolds Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,646 (2024-25)
45th of 111 primary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #43Cowick Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£7,893
- #44Wold Newton Foundation School£7,709
- #45Marshlands Primary School£7,646
- #46Barmby Moor Church of England Primary School£7,640
- #47Woodmansey Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£7,586
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