Great Smeaton Academy Primary School
Primary · Northallerton · DL6 2EQ
Last grade Ofsted published, no newer grade exists
Ofsted graded this school Good in 2015. Every inspection since has been ungraded, and an ungraded inspection cannot change a grade. The most recent found “Standards maintained”. Ofsted's current data file lists only graded inspections from September 2019 onwards, so this grade has dropped out of it, but it is still the school's grade of record, and still on Ofsted's own report page. It is old, so weigh it against the more recent evidence on this page.
Inspected 1 December 2015
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24 pupils · 34% of 70 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 6.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 10.3% of pupils
- URN
- 137348
Compare admissions across the area: Northallerton school admissions · North Yorkshire school admissions
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
4 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
suppressed (small cohort)
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.
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, academy 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
- 3 June 2025: Standards maintained
- 10 December 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 1 December 2015: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 8/10less deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 6/10around the middle for England
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 42.5% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 12.4% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 43.1% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 6.9% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 50.3% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 81.3% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 3.6% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 15.2% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 64.6% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 2.8% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 51.3% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 4.7% | 23.5% |
Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01027592 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,499 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Roads around the school
No collision was reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025.
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0a rural school averages 0.3
- Collisions at school-run times
- 0a rural school averages 0.7
- All reported collisions
- 0a rural school averages 3.4
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 0a rural school averages 0.9
Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.