Hellifield Community Primary School
Primary · Skipton · BD23 4HA
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 25 January 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
77 pupils · 73% of 105 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 13% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 16.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 0% of pupils
- URN
- 121402
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.75 first-choice applications per place4 places offered · 3 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
6 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
49% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 24% moved to another state school · 27% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 24 September 2024: S5 Inspection
- 25 January 2023: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 14 November 2017: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Long Preston Endowed Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Kirkby in Malhamdale United Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Settle Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- Settle College
- Gisburn Primary School
- Giggleswick Primary School
- St Joseph's Catholic primary School, a Voluntary Academy
- Thornton in Craven Community Primary School