Parkside Primary School
General Information
- Address: Western Road, Goole, DN14 6RQ – View on map
- Phone: 01405763634
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Samantha O'Brien
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 27 families put it first for 28 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 28 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 90
- % eligible for free school meals: 22.4%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the East Riding of Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 15% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18.9% a year (East Riding of Yorkshire 12.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 22% moved to another school, 78% 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: 5.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 15.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Speech, language and communication 8 places · 4 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 24 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 10 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 8 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
No overall grade given 2025 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 42% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 1% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points below the East Riding of Yorkshire average (57%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 46% against an expected 65%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 46%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 61% · Writing 71% · Maths 55% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 53%
- Average test scores: reading 101, maths 101
- Based on: 92 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: 93rd of 107 junior and primary schools in the area
- =91Keyingham Primary School44%
- =91Middleton-on-the-Wolds Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School44%
- #93Parkside Primary School42%
- #94Holme-upon-Spalding Moor Primary School40%
- #95Marshlands Primary School39%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,976 (2024-25)
67th of 111 primary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #65Rawcliffe Primary School£7,060
- #66Pollington-Balne Church of England Primary School£7,019
- #67Parkside Primary School£6,976
- #68Hallgate Primary School Cottingham£6,951
- #69Patrington CofE Primary Academy£6,939
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