Pool-in-Wharfedale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Otley, Leeds
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Leeds City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Pool-in-Wharfedale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is a primary school in Otley, Leeds for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Some aspects not as strong, from the inspection on 4 December 2024. Leeds has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Pool-in-Wharfedale Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 8 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Ofsted's latest outcome, on 4 December 2024, found some aspects not as strong, following a Good grade on 22 January 2019.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, with 15 first-choice applications for 15 offers; places ran out in 7 of the 11 earlier years.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 67% was the 2nd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Leeds that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Leeds schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Arthington Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Otley, LS21 1LG
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Leeds
- Pupils on roll
- 168 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Some aspects not as strong Inspected 4 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy in this welcoming school.”
- “Relationships across the school are warm and respectful, reflecting the school’s positive culture and vision that pupils can ‘believe and achieve’.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school and their attendance is improving rapidly.”
To improve
- “However, this vision is not being fully realised across all subjects.”
- “However, their learning is less secure in some subjects in the wider curriculum.”
- “In other subjects, the important knowledge the school want pupils to know is not mapped out clearly enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 67% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 15 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 15 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Leeds.
- Bramhope Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Otley All Saints CofE Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Otley 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Cookridge Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School 3.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Otley the Whartons Primary School 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cookridge Primary School 3.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westgate Primary School 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Queensway Primary School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published