Pickering Community Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Pickering, 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 🔒
Pickering Community Infant School is a primary school in Pickering, North Yorkshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 9 July 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2014 to 2026 entry.
Pickering Community Infant 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 5 earlier figures.
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 happened at 211 of the 285 other North Yorkshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 48 first-choice applications for 50 offers, and 2 offers went to families who ranked the school second or lower.
- 15.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, where the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire is 22.3%.
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
- Ruffa Lane, Pickering, YO18 7AT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 197 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 9 July 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe at this welcoming and inclusive school.”
- “Staff build nurturing relationships with pupils.”
- “Pupils benefit from opportunities to be leaders, including being part of the school’s ‘Eco-Council’.”
To improve
- “However, the quality of education that children receive in the early years is not good enough.”
- “This means that some children are not as ready for the next stage of their education as they need to be.”
- “However, in some subjects, the school does not sequence learning effectively.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 October 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 48 first-preference applications, 50 offers in total, 48 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.
- Pickering Community Junior School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thornton Dale CofE Primary School 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sinnington Community Primary School 3.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rillington Primary School 6.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School 7.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Malton Primary Academy 7.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy 7.2 mi Not judged Last distance published