Giggleswick Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Settle, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.435 miles
Published by North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2014–2025 trend 🔒
Giggleswick Primary School is a primary school in Settle, North Yorkshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 February 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2014 to 2026 entry.
Giggleswick 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 | 0.435 mi |
| 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 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 for Reception, the last child offered a place lived 0.435 miles away, the 4th shortest of 50 North Yorkshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 19 first-choice applications for 13 offers; 13 offers went to first-choice families and 6 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- The school has 37.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.9 across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 22% 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
- Giggleswick Primary School, Church Street, Giggleswick, Settle, BD24 0BJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 75 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 37.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 February 2024
Strengths
- “At Giggleswick Primary School, pupils are proud of their school and their community.”
- “There is a strong family feel, with pupils genuinely caring for each other.”
- “One pupil said, ‘We are all one big family.”
To improve
- “However, older pupils do not always apply their knowledge consistently.”
- “Some pupils do not have quick and accurate recall of number facts, including multiplication tables.”
- “However, the school’s systems to check pupils’ learning in some curriculum areas, including in the early years, are not developed consistently.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 April 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) | 67% | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 13 offers in total, 13 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.
- Settle Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Austwick Church of England VA Primary School 3.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Long Preston Endowed Voluntary Aided Primary School 3.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hellifield Community Primary School 5.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kirkby in Malhamdale United Voluntary Aided Primary School 5.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ingleton Primary School 8.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Gargrave Church of England Primary School 9.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bentham Community Primary School 9.8 mi Good Last distance published