Snape Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Bedale, 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 🔒
Snape Community Primary School is a primary school in Bedale, North Yorkshire for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 March 2023. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Snape 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 5 first-choice applications for 7 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- That was 0.7 first choices per offer for Reception 2026, the 4th lowest of 278 North Yorkshire primary schools.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026; in 2011, the other year with a published outcome, places ran out and a last distance was published.
- Ofsted rated it Good on 7 March 2023, and 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire are also rated Good.
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
- Ings Lane, Snape, Bedale, DL8 2TF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 34 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.8% of pupils eligible
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils have opportunities to come together through collaboration days and by attending the breakfast or after-school clubs, which operate at Thornton Watlass.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school and interacting with their friends.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff are strong.”
To improve
- “There is a small number of instances where pupils’ behaviour does not meet leaders’ high expectations.”
- “However, teachers do not consistently make it explicit to pupils when they are building on something that they have been taught before.”
- “This means that pupils do not make the important links between their learning.”
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: 5 first-preference applications, 7 offers in total, 5 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.
- Bedale Church of England Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thornton Watlass Church of England Primary School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Burneston Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, West Tanfield 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Masham CofE Primary School 3.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Leeming St. John's Church of England Primary School 3.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Crakehall Church of England Primary School 3.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Leeming RAF Community Primary School 3.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published