Bradleys Both CP School is one of the top 250 primary schools in the country. The 144-pupil school was listed in a Parent Power supplement which came out with last weekend's Sunday Times. The supplement detailed the top 500 state schools in the country - 250 primary schools and 250 secondary schools. The school was one of 15 ranked primary schools in the North.

In the report, the primary schools were ranked according to the proportion of 11-year-olds who achieved Level 4 or above in the national curriculum tests in 1997.

Last year at Bradleys Both CP School 19 children achieved 95 percent in the Key Stage 1 reading test and 20 pupils got 100 percent. In the Key Stage English test, 16 children were awarded 100 percent. For mathematics Key Stage 2, 15 pupils gained 94 percent and in science 16 children got 100 percent.

As well as printing the school's results, the supplement also described the school's background, extra curricular activities, discipline, uniform, inspection and secondary schools where the pupils leaving Bradley go to further their education. These include Skipton Girls' High School and Ermysted's Grammar School in Skipton and South Craven School, Cross Hills.

Bradley's head-teacher Ella Preston says: "This is very rewarding for the staff because they are very dedicated and this is a recognition of their hard work.

"But there are an awful lot of schools in which teachers are exceptionally good but they just don't get recognised.'

The 84-year-old school was first contacted by the Sunday Times in June this year and informed that the school would appear in the supplement. The paper asked for details about the school and a photographer came to the school last month to picture the site, staff and pupils.

Bob Pike, a senior advisor for North Yorkshire's education authority who visited the school this week, says: "I regularly come and inspect this school and its standards and I think it's an outstanding school. The teaching is brilliant and of the highest quality. It is also very imaginative. But this is what I've come to expect here."

The school is presently over-subscribed.

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