Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy
General Information
- Address: Broomfield Avenue, Northallerton, DL7 8UL – View on map
- Phone: 01609780971
- Headteacher: Mr Paul Conway
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 12 families put it first for 12 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 8 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Roman Catholic
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 14
- % eligible for free school meals: 15.9%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (more mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 22% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 32.3% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 50% moved to another school, 50% 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
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: 4.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 7.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 9.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 56% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 13% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 5 percentage points below the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 75% against an expected 65%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 75%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 81% · Writing 81% · Maths 63% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 50%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 101
- Based on: 16 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 143rd of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =143Ingleton Primary School56%
- =143Middleham Church of England Aided School56%
- =143Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy56%
- =143Sleights Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School56%
- =143Sutton CofE Primary and Nursery School56%
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144th of 223 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #142Rosedale Abbey Community Primary SchoolGood
- #143Rossett Acre Primary SchoolGood
- #144Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyGood
- #145Sand Hutton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #146Saxton Church of England Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,615 (2024-25)
180th of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #178St Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy£6,621
- #179Ripon Cathedral Church of England Primary School£6,619
- #180Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy£6,615
- #181Norton Community Primary School£6,613
- #182Thorpe Willoughby Community Primary School£6,592
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