Key Characteristics:
The school a smaller than average Voluntary Aided Roman Catholic Primary School, is situated in the South Wolds area of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The school serves the parishes of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Market Weighton and St. John the Baptist, Holme on Spalding Moor.
Presently there are 85 pupils on role with 4.1fte teaching staff.
58% of the pupils live in Market Weighton and the remainder travel in from surrounding villages. 55% of the pupils in school are baptised Catholics.

At St. Mary’s School we are committed to promoting:-

• The search for excellence as an integral part of the spiritual quest:
• The uniqueness of the individual as made in God's image;
• The education of the whole person in the belief that the human and the divine are inseparable;
• the education of all where each person is valued as a unique creation of God;
• moral principles developed through life in a community which is founded on Gospel values.

Introduction
The school has an excellent PTA.
Mrs Joanne Traunter, the chair, leads a strong and active membership who hold lively meetings and organise a range of events through the year.