Woodland Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Bishop Auckland, County Durham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Durham County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
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Woodland Primary School is a primary school in Bishop Auckland, County Durham for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 April 2024. County Durham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
Woodland 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026, every applicant was offered a place, with 5 first-choice applications for 5 offers.
- 164 of the 200 other County Durham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome also offered every applicant a place.
- The school has 11.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18 across the 8 nearest primary schools in County Durham.
- 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in County Durham.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other County Durham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Woodland, Bishop Auckland, DL13 5RF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- County Durham
- Pupils on roll
- 25 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 11.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 April 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish in this delightful, small, rural school.”
- “They say that there are ‘never any sad faces’ at the school.”
- “Strong and trusting relationships underpin this.”
To improve
- “Older pupils would welcome the opportunity to participate in more-structured activities during this time.”
- “In some subjects, however, more-formal approaches to checking what pupils know and can do have only recently been established and are not yet embedded.”
- “This means that some subject leaders do not yet have a secure understanding of how pupils are performing in their subject areas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 5 first-preference applications, 5 offers in total, 5 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 County Durham.
- Butterknowle Primary School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cockfield Primary School 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Hamsterley Primary School 3.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ramshaw Primary School 4.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Evenwood Church of England Primary School 5.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Staindrop CofE (Controlled) Primary School 5.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Witton-le-Wear Primary School 5.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Toft Hill Primary School 5.7 mi Not judged Last distance published