St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy
General Information
- Address: Highfield Road, Malton, YO17 7DB – View on map
- Phone: 01653692274
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Helen Davenport
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Roman Catholic
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 28
- % eligible for free school meals: 13.3%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (more mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 9% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 35% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 67% moved to another school, 33% 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: 3.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 2.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 8.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Physical disability: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 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: 65% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 4 percentage points above the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 63% against an expected 72%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 63%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 90% · Writing 87% · Maths 68% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 71%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 103
- Based on: 31 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 97th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =97New Park Primary Academy65%
- =97Sowerby Primary Academy65%
- =97St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy65%
- =101Dishforth Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School64%
- =101Hampsthwaite Church of England Primary School64%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,095 (2024-25)
216th of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #214Carlton Primary School£6,111
- #215Hipswell Church of England Primary School£6,101
- #216St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy£6,095
- #217Thornton Dale CofE Primary School£6,088
- #218Hutton Rudby Primary School£6,075
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