Appleton Wiske Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Northallerton, 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 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Appleton Wiske Community Primary School is a primary school in Northallerton, North Yorkshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 1 March 2022. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Appleton Wiske 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 211 of the 285 other North Yorkshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2011, the one earlier year with a published Reception outcome, places ran out.
- Reception 2026 drew 9 first-choice applications for 9 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; the admission number for Reception 2027 is 12 places.
- There are 19.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 15.2 across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire.
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
- Front Street, Appleton Wiske, Northallerton, DL6 2AA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 75 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 1 March 2022
Strengths
- “Appleton Wiske is a caring village school that is well regarded by its community.”
- “Pupils are proud of their school and enjoy attending.”
- “Pupils say they feel safe and trust the adults to look after them.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, leaders do not check curriculum practice as well as in others.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 May 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 9 first-preference applications, 9 offers in total, 9 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.
- Great Smeaton Academy Primary School 2.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hutton Rudby Primary School 4.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Brompton Community Primary School 5.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- East Cowton Church of England Primary School 5.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oakbridge Church of England Primary School 5.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Osmotherley Primary School 6.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alverton Primary School 6.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- North and South Cowton Community Primary School 6.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published