Cowling Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Keighley, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2017–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cowling Community Primary School is a primary school in Keighley, North Yorkshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 November 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2026 entry.
Cowling 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 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 drew 9 first-choice applications for 8 offers, 1.1 first choices per offer and the 27th highest of 278 North Yorkshire primary schools.
- In Reception 2026, 8 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- Of the 25 Reception 2026 applications, 5 (20%) came from families living outside North Yorkshire, and 1 offer went to them.
- In 2024/25, 53% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Gill Lane, Cowling, Keighley, BD22 0DF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 118 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils love all aspects of Cowling Community Primary School.”
- “They are happy and proud to attend here.”
- “Pupils feel safe in this friendly, welcoming school.”
To improve
- “However, in the wider curriculum, the school is still working out the best ways to check what pupils know and remember.”
- “In these subjects, sometimes, teaching is not adjusted well enough to help pupils achieve as well as they might.”
- “The school has identified this as a priority for development.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 December 2024 (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) | 53% | 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: 9 first-preference applications, 8 offers in total, 8 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.
- Lothersdale Primary School 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Glusburn Community Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Sutton-in-Craven Community Primary School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sutton CofE Primary and Nursery School 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cononley Primary School 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kildwick Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 3.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Bradleys Both Community Primary School 4.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Carleton Endowed CofE Primary School 4.1 mi Not judged Last distance published