New Earswick Primary School, York

Ofsted's report card from its 24 March 2026 inspection grades New Earswick Primary School on 7 areas: 1 strong standard, 5 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Early years - Strong standard. "Staff consistently maximise opportunities for children to learn through staff interactions with them and during carefully designed activities."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Children in the early years are skilfully supported to achieve well by the end of Reception Year, whatever their starting point."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff have developed a culture of high expectations."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "The school is highly inclusive."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "The school has undergone significant change since the last inspection."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The school's programme for personal development promotes pupils' character development well."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Leaders acknowledge that attendance for some pupils is too low."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to improve pupils' attendance rates, ensuring that the school works with parents and carers, and communicates its expectations to pupils about attendance clearly"; "Leaders should continue their work to ensure that pupils develop strong foundations in spelling and handwriting, so that pupils are consistently able to achieve greater accuracy and proficiency in their writing across all subjects"; "Leaders should ensure that they continue to embed recent changes to the teaching of reading so that more pupils secure consistently positive outcomes in both the phonics screening check and national tests at the end of Year 6".

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils at New Earswick Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 73% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 77% and 74% in York and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 82% in reading and 77% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 21 families put New Earswick Primary School as their first choice and 48 named it as one of their preferences, for 21 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to New Earswick Primary School are Huntington Primary Academy (0.7 miles, Requires improvement, 73% reading, 69% maths); Yearsley Grove Primary School (0.9 miles, Good, 53% reading, 57% maths); Headlands Primary School (1.2 miles, Good, 89% reading, 82% maths); and Burton Green Primary School (1.3 miles, Good, 63% reading, 42% maths).

New Earswick Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

New Earswick Primary School is one of 20 schools run by Pathfinder Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

35 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about New Earswick Primary School (as of April 2026): 89% would recommend the school, 94% say their child is happy there and 75% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (94%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (75%).

50.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 4.7% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (85%) and Mixed (5%).

In 2026, 31 pupils (14.6%) received SEN support and 14 (6.6%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

New Earswick Primary School had 13 teachers in 2026, one for every 13 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Main Entrance, about 2.5 miles away in a straight line.

5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is New Earswick Shops (opposite), 140 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 72 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, burglary and anti-social behaviour. That is well below the typical figure around schools in York (175).

In 2024/25, New Earswick Primary School issued 17 suspensions, 8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to New Earswick Primary School are Huntington School (0.3 miles), Joseph Rowntree School (0.4 miles) and Vale of York Academy (1.6 miles).