Cayton Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.111 miles
Published by North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Cayton Community Primary School is a primary school in Scarborough, North Yorkshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 27 November 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Cayton 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 | 1.111 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 2 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last distance offered for Reception in 2026 was 1.111 miles, the 11th shortest of 50 North Yorkshire primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- The Reception last distance in 2026 was about the same as in 2025 and nearer than in 2018, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 40 first-choice applications for 29 offers, 1.4 first choices per offer, the 10th highest of 278 North Yorkshire primary schools.
- 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 11 first-choice families (28%) were not offered a place for Reception in 2026.
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
- Mill Lane, Cayton, Mill Lane, Cayton, Yo11 3nn, Scarborough, YO11 3NN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 210 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 27 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Cayton are proud and joyful members of the school community.”
- “They embody the school’s underlying ethos of respect, trust and harmony.”
- “Positive relationships and behaviours abound in school.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, checks on what pupils know and can do lack rigour.”
- “This means that, at times, gaps in pupils’ knowledge and skills are not identified and addressed quickly.”
- “Some pupils do not achieve as well as they could in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 January 2025 (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) | 61% | 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: 40 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Scarborough, Overdale Community Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St George's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Braeburn Primary and Nursery Academy 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Scarborough 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wheatcroft Community Primary School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Seamer and Irton Community Primary School 2.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Thomas Hinderwell Primary Academy 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gladstone Road Primary School 3.5 mi Good Last distance published