Bishop Wilton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 2–11 · York, East Riding of Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
4.991 miles
Published by East Riding of Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Bishop Wilton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is a primary school in York, East Riding of Yorkshire for ages 2–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 4 June 2024. East Riding of Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Bishop Wilton 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 2025 | 4.991 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last distance offered for Reception 2025 was 4.991 miles, the 3rd longest of the 6 East Riding of Yorkshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- For Reception 2026 there was 1 first-choice application for 1 offer; 1 of the 5 applications (20%) came from families outside East Riding of Yorkshire and received 0 offers.
- There are 38 pupils on roll and 12.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.1 across the 8 nearest primary schools in East Riding of Yorkshire.
- 28.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 8.2% across 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
- Main Street, Bishop Wilton, York, YO42 1SP
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 38 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 4 June 2024
Strengths
- “Bishop Wilton Primary School is determined for all pupils to succeed.”
- “As one parent said, ‘This school provides opportunities for all children to thrive.”
- “Staff have worked hard to address the areas for improvement identified at the last inspection.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes, during reading sessions, opportunities to check whether all pupils have a secure understanding of the sounds that letters represent are overlooked.”
- “This hampers some pupils’ progress in learning to read.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 1 first-preference applications, 1 offers in total, 1 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.
- Bugthorpe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Fangfoss 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pocklington Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant School 3.7 mi Not judged
- Pocklington Junior School 3.7 mi Standards maintained
- St Mary & St Joseph Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Barmby Moor Church of England Primary School 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wilberfoss Church of England Primary School 5.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Warter Church of England Primary School 5.2 mi Good Last distance published