Rosedale Abbey Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Pickering, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
Rosedale Abbey Community Primary School is a primary school in Pickering, North Yorkshire for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 1 February 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Rosedale Abbey 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 6 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 drew 2 first-choice applications for 2 offers, and every applicant was offered a place.
- There were 15 pupils on roll in January 2026, with 5 pupils per teacher against a middle figure of 16.9 across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire.
- 33.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire is 11.5%.
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
- Rosedale Abbey, Pickering, YO18 8SA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 15 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 1 February 2024
Strengths
- “Its vison is to raise pupils’ aspirations, develop a strong community and to value each individual.”
- “The school is successful in doing so.”
- “The ‘spirit’ values can be seen throughout the school.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes the exact knowledge that the school wants pupils to learn and remember is not clearly identified in some subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 March 2024 (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.
- Gillamoor Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 4.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School 6.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Sinnington Community Primary School 6.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Glaisdale Primary School 6.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Danby Church of England Voluntary Aided School 7.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Goathland Primary School 7.6 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Lealholm Primary School 7.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Hedda's Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy 7.7 mi Not judged Last distance published