Scarcroft Primary School is a

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housed in a

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on Moss Street, just south-west of the city centre of

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

, in England. In 1895, the York School Board leased the Victoria Bar Primitive Methodist Connexion mission room on Nunnery Lane, for the education of 150 children. In August 1896, this was replaced by the newly built Scarcroft Road Board School, at the north-eastern end of Micklegate Stray. The school was designed to accommodate 1,200 children in 21 classrooms and two halls. Numbers grew slowly, with only 168 children enrolled in 1897, reaching 1,175 by 1910. At the time, it accommodated both primary and secondary age pupils. After

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, the senior section ceased accepting girls, and the building was divided between Scarcroft County Primary School and Scarcroft Secondary Modern Boys School. Scarcroft_School_-_geograph

The building was designed by

Walter Brierley Walter Henry Brierley (1862–1926) was a York architect who practised in the city for 40 years. He is known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens" or the "Lutyens of the North". He is also credited with being a leading exponent of the "Wrenaissance" ...

, and

Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...

describes it as "his masterpiece", with "one of the most striking and original elevations in York". It is in the Queen Anne style. The building is built of brick. The central part of the building, the hall range, is of two tall stories, and there are wings either side, of three stories, with attics. At both ends of the wings, smaller wings project. The hall is lit by three large windows, and there are corner turrets on its roof. There is also a central

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. Most of the windows are original, and the interior also retains many original fixtures and fittings. The building was grade II* listed in 1968. The playground walls, gates and railings, also designed by Brierley, were grade II listed in 1997. In 2017, the school was refurbished, with two extra classrooms added in the existing building. Part of the car park was converted into an additional playground. In 2022, the school had 384 pupils aged between 4 and 11. It is part of the South Bank Multi-Academy Trust.

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* {{Schools in North Yorkshire Buildings and structures completed in 1896 Grade II* listed buildings in York Primary schools in York Academies in York Educational institutions established in 1896 1896 establishments in England