The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. Bilsdale Midcable Chop Gate Voluntary Controlled Primary School is much smaller than other primary schools, serving a wide, mainly rural, community. A permanent executive/shared headteacher has been appointed from March 2016. The number of children on roll is very low, and no disadvantaged pupils who are supported through the pupil premium have been on roll since 2016. The school is in a formal confederation with a slightly larger school operating on a different site. Each school currently has its own governing body. The schools share the same headteacher. Under this arrangement, pupils are taught in their own schools from Monday to Thursday, and on a Friday children from Bilsdale Inspection report: Bilsdale Midcable Chop Gate Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, 18–19 October 2017 Page 9 of 12 Midcable Chop Gate School are taught collectively with pupils on the other school site. The school meets the government’s current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils’ attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6. The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is in line with the national average.