Primary
Moorside Primary School & Nursery
Harrogate Road, Ripon, HG4 1SU
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 169 of 210 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 8.7
- All staff (FTE)
- 11.1
- Pupils per adult
- 15.5
- Pupils
- 172
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected September 2023
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
May 2017
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
SATs results
61%
5 points above the Ripon average (56% across 11 schools)
105.0
0.8 below the Ripon average (105.8 across 11 schools)
5th of 12 by our score, among the primary schools in Ripon we can score - 13 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 104 |
| Average reading score | 105 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 61% |
| Working at a higher standard | 3% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 55% |
| 23/24 | 68% |
| 24/25 | 61% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 106.0 |
| 23/24 | 105.0 |
| 24/25 | 105.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 102.0 |
| 23/24 | 105.0 |
| 24/25 | 104.0 |
Harrogate Road, Ripon, HG4 1SU
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
North Yorkshire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Claire Rowett
- Address
- Harrogate Road, Ripon, HG4 1SU
- Telephone
- 01765604208
Other primary schools nearby
- Outwood Primary Academy Greystone7.5/10
- St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy7.3/10
- Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School4.4/10
- Ripon Cathedral Church of England Primary School6.6/10
- Sharow Church of England Primary School4.7/10
- Bishop Monkton Church of England Primary School6.8/10