Molescroft Primary School
General Information
- Address: St Leonard's Road, Molescroft, Beverley, HU17 7HF – View on map
- Phone: 01482861762
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Bethan Nicholls
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 80 families put it first for 60 places – 13 for every 10 places. 75% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 11 · 2024 11 · 2025 11 · 2026 13
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 35
- % eligible for free school meals: 8.3%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the East Riding of Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 6.6% a year (East Riding of Yorkshire 12.2%, typical in England 13.9%) Low turnover
- Where they went: about 26% moved to another school, 74% 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. "Low turnover" means it's among the quarter of similar schools in England where teachers are most likely to stay.
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: 3.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 3.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 10.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 14 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 11 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 8 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Outstanding 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 62% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 2% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 5 percentage points above the East Riding of Yorkshire average (57%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 66% against an expected 68%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 66%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 83% · Writing 78% · Maths 72% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 90%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 103
- Based on: 60 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 43rd of 107 junior and primary schools in the area
- =38Willerby Carr Lane Primary School63%
- =43Bacon Garth Primary School62%
- =43Molescroft Primary School62%
- =45St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy60%
- =45Swinefleet Primary School60%
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2nd of 89 primary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #1Gilberdyke Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #2Molescroft Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #3Snaith Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #4Swinemoor Primary SchoolOutstanding
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,090 (2024-25)
62nd of 111 primary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #60Airmyn Park Primary School£7,189
- #61St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Goole£7,176
- #62Molescroft Primary School£7,090
- #63Sutton Upon Derwent Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£7,067
- #64St Mary & St Joseph Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy£7,066
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