Primary
Knavesmire Primary School
Trafalgar Street, York, YO23 1HY
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 484 of 420 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.6
- Local authority
- York
- Nursery
- Yes
- Trust
- EXCEL LEARNING TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 20.3
- All staff (FTE)
- 39.9
- Pupils per adult
- 11.5
- Pupils
- 459
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 October 2022
Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Early yearsOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationOutstanding
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)SATs results
84%
20 points above the York average (64% across 92 schools)
109.0
2.9 above the York average (106.1 across 92 schools)
2nd of 94 by our score, among the primary schools in York we can score - 102 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 | 108 |
| Average reading score | 109 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 84% |
| Working at a higher standard | 21% |
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 | 82% |
| 23/24 | 92% |
| 24/25 | 84% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 109.0 |
| 23/24 | 108.0 |
| 24/25 | 109.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 107.0 |
| 23/24 | 108.0 |
| 24/25 | 108.0 |
Trafalgar Street, York, YO23 1HY
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.
York 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
- Adam Cooper
- Address
- Trafalgar Street, York, YO23 1HY
- Telephone
- 01904806545
Other primary schools nearby
- Scarcroft Primary School7.2/10
- St George's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy6.4/10
- Fishergate Primary School6.0/10
- St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School6.0/10
- Dringhouses Primary School6.8/10
- Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy5.9/10