Headlands Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · York
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From City of York Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Headlands Primary School is a primary school in York for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 9 December 2022. York has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Headlands 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The share of pupils eligible for free school meals is 4.5%, against a middle figure of 22.8% across the 8 nearest primary schools in York.
- Every applicant for Reception in 2026 was offered a place, as at 33 of the 47 other York primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- There were 22 first-choice applications for 24 Reception offers in 2026, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 10th lowest of 47 York primary schools.
- In 2024/25, 66% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other York schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Oak Tree Lane, Holly Tree Meadows, Haxby, York, YO32 2YH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- York
- Pupils on roll
- 243 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 9 December 2022
Strengths
- “Staff at Headlands School have high expectations for all pupils.”
- “The values of kindness, respect and resilience are a strong feature of the school.”
- “Pupils help one another inside and outside lessons.”
To improve
- “However, the precise knowledge that pupils will learn in some foundation subjects, such as art and design, is not as clearly identified.”
- “However, in some foundation subjects, leaders have not established the precise knowledge they want to be assessed.”
- “Consequently, assessment is not as effective as it might be at identifying gaps in pupils’ knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 February 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) | 66% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 22 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 York.
- Ralph Butterfield Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Wigginton Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- New Earswick Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Huntington Primary Academy 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lakeside Primary Academy 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Yearsley Grove Primary School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Skelton Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Burton Green Primary School 2.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published