St Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Primary · Selby · YO8 9AX
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 20 February 2024
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188 pupils · 90% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 11.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 13.7% of pupils
- SEN support
- 10.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.8% of pupils
- Website
- www.sm.bkcat.co.uk
- URN
- 148166
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.85 first-choice applications per place20 places offered · 17 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)
25 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)
76% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 24% 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, 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
- 20 February 2024: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Brayton Academy
- Selby, Longman's Hill Community Primary School
- Brayton Church of England Primary School
- Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science
- The Rubicon Centre
- Selby Abbey Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- Selby Community Primary School
- Staynor Hall Primary Academy