Melsonby Methodist Primary School
Primary · Richmond · DL10 5ND
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 20 November 2019
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
32 pupils · 46% of 70 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Methodist
- Free school meals
- 9.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 17.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 0% of pupils
- URN
- 121543
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place3 places offered · 3 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
no data
no data
no data
no data
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)
75% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 25% 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
- 8 October 2024: S5 Inspection
- 20 November 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 8 December 2015: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Barton Church of England Primary School
- Middleton Tyas Church of England Primary School
- Eppleby Forcett Church of England Primary School
- Ravensworth Church of England Primary School
- St Francis Xavier School - a Joint Catholic and Church of England Voluntary Academy
- Richmond Methodist Primary School
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy
- Trinity Academy Richmond