Pupils at Nawton Primary School, near Helmsley, are celebrating their success in the primary school performance tables published today.

The tables show that all the pupils at Nawton who took national tests in English, maths and science in the summer reached the expected level four.

Other North Yorkshire primary schools achieved the same standard, including Topcliffe, near Thirsk and St Joseph's RC Primary in Harrogate.

Topcliffe was also one of the top 100 improving schools in maths and English in the country.

Catherine Hanch, headteacher at Nawton, said: "We're very pleased and the children worked very hard with an excellent class teacher, Liz Ives.

"Although the tables don't really reflect how hard children have worked or the improvement they make in schools, we are really pleased that our children did so well."

Across North Yorkshire, 80 per cent of last year's Year Six children reached level four in English and 78 per cent in maths.

A spokesman for the council said: "The tables show that the percentage of children gaining level four or more in all three subjects has improved steadily over the past four years. What is not shown in the tables is that there has also been a steady improvement in the percentage of children gaining level 5 or more in all three subjects."