Westfield Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.575 miles
Published by East Riding of Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Westfield Primary School is a primary school in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 February 2024. East Riding of Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Westfield 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 | 0.575 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.575 miles away, the 4th shortest of 33 East Riding of Yorkshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and nearer than in 2024, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For 2026 Reception there were 64 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (6%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 64% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other East Riding of Yorkshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Westfield Primary School, Westfield Road, Cottingham, HU16 5PE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 450 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Westfield enjoy being part of this welcoming and supportive school.”
- “They are happy and polite and communicate with kindness.”
- “Relationships in school are warm and built on respect.”
To improve
- “Where the school has not yet identified the knowledge they want pupils to know, the curriculum is less developed.”
- “This means that pupils are not able to remember or apply key learning effectively enough.”
- “However, they have a very limited understanding of other faiths and cultures.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 April 2024 (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) | 64% | 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: 64 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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 East Riding of Yorkshire.
- Bacon Garth Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Hallgate Primary School Cottingham 0.6 mi Good
- Croxby Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Skidby Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Willerby Carr Lane Primary School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Springhead Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kirk Ella St Andrew's Community Primary School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Acre Heads Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published