North and South Cowton Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Northallerton, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2014–2025 trend 🔒
North and South Cowton Community Primary School is a primary school in Northallerton, North Yorkshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 7 March 2023. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2014 to 2026 entry.
North and South Cowton Community 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 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for Reception 2026 was offered a place, as at 211 of the 285 other North Yorkshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 2 first-choice applications for 2 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- With 14 pupils on roll in January 2026, there are 10 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 17.6 across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other North Yorkshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Main Road, Main Road, North Cowton, Northallerton, DL7 0HF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 14 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 0% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 10
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 7 March 2023
Strengths
- “The school community is like a happy family.”
- “Pupils and staff know each other exceptionally well.”
- “Relationships are warm and trusting.”
To improve
- “In other subjects such as science and history, pupils’ knowledge is not as secure.”
- “The order staff should teach new knowledge to pupils of different ages is not well set out.”
- “In particular, the specific knowledge needed to study each subject is not clear.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 2 first-preference applications, 2 offers in total, 2 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 North Yorkshire.
- East Cowton Church of England Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bolton-On-Swale St Mary's CofE Primary School 3.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Croft Church of England Primary School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Middleton Tyas Church of England Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Great Smeaton Academy Primary School 4.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Michael Syddall Church of England Aided Primary School 4.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barton Church of England Primary School 4.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Brompton-on-Swale Church of England Primary School 4.8 mi Good Last distance published