Dringhouses Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · York
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.581 miles
Published by City of York Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Dringhouses Primary School is a primary school in York for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 15 November 2022. York has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Dringhouses 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 | 0.581 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.581 miles away, the shortest of the 11 York primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- There were 49 first-choice applications for 45 Reception offers in 2026; all 45 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 15% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other York schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- St Helen's Road, Dringhouses, York, YO24 1HW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- York
- Pupils on roll
- 312 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 15 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils listen attentively and respond to instructions swiftly.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff are positive.”
- “Pupils who need a ‘brain break’ access a safe space for short periods of rest between learning tasks.”
To improve
- “Some subjects are more developed than others.”
- “Leaders recognise that they will need to refine some subjects, such as history, as they gain a deeper knowledge of the curriculum.”
- “Subject leaders have not had enough opportunities to check the effectiveness of their curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 January 2023 (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) | 70% | 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: 49 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 45 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 York.
- Hob Moor Community Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodthorpe Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Acomb Primary School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Knavesmire Primary School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Scarcroft Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Westfield Primary Community School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published