St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, West Tanfield
General Information
- Address: Mowbray Terrace, West Tanfield, Ripon, HG4 5JN – View on map
- Phone: 01677470329
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Sarah Taylor
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 3
- % eligible for free school meals: 5.7%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 4% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 11.3% a year (North Yorkshire 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 11% moved to another school, 89% 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: 4.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 12.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- 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
SATs results for this school weren't published for 2024/25 - the Department for Education withholds them when a year group is too small to report without identifying pupils.
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170th of 211 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #168St Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyGood
- #169St Mary's Primary School Knaresborough, A Voluntary Catholic AcademyGood
- #170St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, West TanfieldGood
- #171St Peter's Brafferton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolGood
- #172St Peter's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £10,263 (2024-25)
47th of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #45Nawton Community Primary School£10,342
- #46Kirkby in Malhamdale United Voluntary Aided Primary School£10,290
- #47St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, West Tanfield£10,263
- #48Dishforth Airfield Community Primary School£10,242
- #49Hawsker Cum Stainsacre Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£10,228
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