Thornton in Craven Community Primary School
General Information
- Address: Cam Lane, Thornton-in-Craven, BD23 3SX – View on map
- Phone: 01282843381
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Suzie Brown
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 9 families put it first for 11 places – 8 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 8 of the 11 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 15 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 2
- % eligible for free school meals: 2.4%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the North Yorkshire average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 13.7% 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. 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: 3.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 2.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 85% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 24 percentage points above the North Yorkshire average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 76% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 76%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 85% · Writing 85% · Maths 92% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 69%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 107
- Based on: 13 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 19th of 232 junior and primary schools in the area
- =19Airy Hill Primary School85%
- =19Hambleton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School85%
- =19Thornton in Craven Community Primary School85%
- =19Wistow Parochial Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School85%
- #23Trinity Academy Richmond84%
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199th of 223 primary schools in North Yorkshire for Ofsted rating
- #197Terrington Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolGood
- #198Thornton Watlass Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #199Thornton in Craven Community Primary SchoolGood
- #200Thorpe Willoughby Community Primary SchoolGood
- #201Threshfield Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,830 (2024-25)
109th of 260 primary schools in North Yorkshire for spending per pupil
- #107St Joseph's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy£7,862
- #108Hertford Vale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Staxton£7,844
- #109Thornton in Craven Community Primary School£7,830
- #110St Benedict's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy£7,814
- #111Scotton Lingerfield Primary School£7,762
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