Gladstone Road Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Gladstone Road Primary School is a primary school in Scarborough, North Yorkshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 July 2023. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Gladstone Road 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 1 earlier figure.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 211 of the 285 other North Yorkshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For 2026 Reception entry there were 65 first-choice applications for 65 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 69% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 1% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Wooler Street, Scarborough, YO12 7DD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 680 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 3 July 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Gladstone Road are happy and are enthusiastic ambassadors for their school.”
- “They offer a warm welcome to visitors and speak with real affection about the staff at the school.”
- “They speak very proudly about the support they offer to other pupils across the school.”
To improve
- “However, some of the approaches to implementing the curriculum and the assessment of how well pupils are learning are not consistently embedded in some foundation subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 September 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) | 69% | 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: 65 first-preference applications, 65 offers in total, 65 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.
- Friarage Community Academy 0.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Scarborough, Northstead Community Primary School 0.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Barrowcliff School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Thomas Hinderwell Primary Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Newby and Scalby Academy 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wheatcroft Community Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Scarborough 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published