The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Seamer and Irton Community Primary School

URN 121357 · Primary · Community school · North Yorkshire

Denison Avenue, Scarborough, YO12 4QX

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 40 families named Seamer and Irton Community Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 45 offers.

That is 0.89 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 19% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 19% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.13 in 2021–2022 and 0.89 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 40 107 45 0.89
2024 52 128 58 0.90
2023 58 112 59 0.98
2022 48 84 48 1.00
2021 76 121 60 1.27
2020 60 103 60 1.00
2019 52 92 60 0.87
2018 50 93 56 0.89
2017 55 90 56 0.98
2016 66 112 60 1.10
2015 50 77 54 0.93
2014 55 83 56 0.98

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2023 to 202520232025

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 17 June 2025

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 28 September 2023

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 57.0% 7.0% 104.0 103.0
2023/24 44.0% 5.0% 101.0 100.0
2022/23 39.0% 2.0% 102.0 101.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 17.3 16.1 0.0 1.2 6.9%
2023/24 16.9 13.1 1.0 2.8 22.5%
2022/23 17.9 16.9 0.0 1.0 5.6%
2021/22 17.0 16.5 0.0 0.5 2.9%
2020/21 17.6 17.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 15.2 14.2 0.0 1.0 6.6%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

North Yorkshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Seamer and Irton Community Primary School).

Covers: 133 live postcodes across 20.323 km².

7 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Seamer and Irton Community Primary School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Seamer and Irton Community Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.