The Boyle and Petyt Primary School, Skipton

Ofsted's report card from its 3 March 2026 inspection grades The Boyle and Petyt Primary School on 7 areas: 3 expected standard and 4 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils' rates of attendance are typically close to the national average."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders quickly identify any additional needs that pupils may have, including any special educational needs and/or disabilities."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have refined the curriculum for personal, social and health education (PSHE) to ensure it identifies the important knowledge pupils should learn."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils' progress through the curriculum is variable."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "In some subjects, the curriculum does not clearly set out the knowledge and skills that pupils should learn."

Early years - Needs attention. "The curriculum in the early years does not identify precisely what children should know and be able to do."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "A number of changes in leadership over recent years have slowed the school's ability to make the necessary improvements."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that the curriculum, including in the early years, clearly identifies the knowledge and skills that pupils should learn so that staff can emphasis this information when they design learning activities and check pupils' understanding"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers help pupils make connections to prior learning so that pupils develop deep, well-connected knowledge over time"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers identify and address gaps in pupils' knowledge, including in spelling and writing, so that pupils' understanding builds securely over time"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers adapt the curriculum from pupil's starting points to allow them to make suitable progress in their learning"; "Leaders should ensure that all staff have suitable subject knowledge in the subjects and phases they teach so that the curriculum is delivered consistently well"; "Leaders should ensure that they establish effective systems for monitoring their actions to improve the school so that they can target their actions appropriately when weaknesses are identified to drive rapid improvement"; "Leaders should continue to refine the personal development offer to ensure pupils demonstrate a deeper understanding of the personal, social, health and economic education curriculum".

In its own words: "These values are at the heart of all that we do: our children are kind, determined and resilient learners who care about their friends, their community and the wider world. They understand our values and they demonstrate them on a daily basis. The school's character is one of kindness and care."

The school runs a breakfast club from 8:00am and after-school care.

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils at The Boyle and Petyt Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 83% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 76% and 73% in North Yorkshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 92% in reading and 83% in maths in 2024.

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

For September 2026 entry, 14 families put The Boyle and Petyt Primary School as their first choice and 36 named it as one of their preferences, for 12 places offered. That is 1.2 first choices for every place. 3 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to The Boyle and Petyt Primary School are Addingham Primary School (1.9 miles, Outstanding, 81% reading, 74% maths); All Saints' CofE Primary School (3.7 miles, Good, 93% reading, 89% maths); Ashlands Primary School (4.1 miles, 83% reading, 74% maths); and The Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School (4.3 miles, Good, 89% reading, 79% maths).

The Boyle and Petyt Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

33 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about The Boyle and Petyt Primary School (as of April 2026): 91% would recommend the school, 94% say their child is happy there and 0% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they are kept well informed about progress (94%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (0%).

2.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 0% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 7 pupils (8.9%) received SEN support and 2 (2.5%) 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 a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia.

The Boyle and Petyt Primary School had 6 teachers in 2026, one for every 12 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Bolton Abbey (Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway), about 1.1 miles away in a straight line.

In August 2026, police recorded 1 crime within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences. That is well below the typical figure around schools in North Yorkshire (9).

The Boyle and Petyt Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.