Copmanthorpe Primary School

About Copmanthorpe Primary School

Copmanthorpe Primary School holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it maintained in its most recent ungraded inspection in 2023. The school’s most telling academic metric is its Key Stage 2 combined reading, writing and maths expected standard, which sits at 64% of pupils. That figure is a touch above the York local authority average of 62%, placing the school 25th out of 47 primary schools in the area. While not among the top tier — Knavesmire, Lord Deramore’s and Ralph Butterfield all score higher — Copmanthorpe is solidly in the middle of the pack, performing better than roughly half its local peers. The school’s previous graded inspection, back in 2014, also rated it Good overall, with leadership and management judged Good too. Its earlier 2006 inspection had awarded Outstanding, so the trajectory has been one of steady, if slightly more measured, quality.

Looking closer at the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, reading and maths both come out well. The average reading score was 107 and maths 105, both above the national benchmark of 100. In reading, 83% of pupils hit the expected standard and 36% reached the higher standard; in maths, 83% hit the expected mark and 32% the higher one. Writing is a relative weak spot — 71% reached the expected standard and only 15% the higher one, which is likely what pulls the combined figure down. Progress scores aren’t available in the data, so it’s hard to say how much value the school adds, but the raw attainment is respectable. The school has no sixth form, as you’d expect for a primary, and no nursery provision either, so it serves children from Reception through Year 6.

Copmanthorpe is oversubscribed: for 2025/26, it had 52 applications for 26 places, with 25 first-preference offers made from 25 first-preference applications — meaning every family who put it first got a place, but there was no room for second choices. The school has a broad set of facilities including a library, sports hall, music rooms, playing fields, a forest school and an ICT suite, plus clubs like gardening, chess, coding and eco club. Sports on offer include tennis, athletics, swimming and cricket. SEND provision covers specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, speech and language needs, autistic spectrum disorder and social and emotional mental health support. With 313 pupils against a capacity of 390, there’s some headroom, but the oversubscription suggests it’s a popular choice for local families who value solid, above-average outcomes without the pressure of the very top-ranked schools.

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