Pannal Primary School
General Information
- Address: Pannal Green, Pannal, Harrogate, HG3 1LH – View on map
- Phone: 01423872407
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Amanda Wolfram
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 49 families put it first for 51 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 11 · 2024 11 · 2025 13 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 27
- % eligible for free school meals: 6.0%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 11.8% 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.
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: 3.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 4.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 28 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 11 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 5 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 77% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 11% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 16 percentage points above the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 71% against an expected 71%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 71%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 88% · Writing 88% · Maths 86% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 86%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 107
- Based on: 66 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 37th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =37Greatwood Community Primary School77%
- =37Oatlands Community Junior School77%
- =37Pannal Primary School77%
- =37Rossett Acre Primary School77%
- =37St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Scarborough77%
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131st of 223 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #129Norton Community Primary SchoolGood
- #130Osmotherley Primary SchoolGood
- #131Pannal Primary SchoolGood
- #132Pickhill Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #133Ravensworth Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,224 (2024-25)
253rd of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #251Broomfield School£5,350
- #252Kirk Fenton Church of England Primary School£5,313
- #253Pannal Primary School£5,224
- #254Newby and Scalby Academy£5,197
- #255South Milford Primary School£5,180
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