St Oswald's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled 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 🔒
St Oswald's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is a primary school in York for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 10 April 2024. York has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Oswald's Church of England Voluntary Controlled 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
- Reception 2026 had 52 first-choice applications for 43 offers; 39 offers went to first-choice families, and 13 first-choice families (25%) were not offered a place.
- That is 1.2 first choices per offer for Reception 2026, the 3rd highest of 47 York primary schools; 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 72% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%); 17% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- It has 19.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.2 across the 8 nearest primary schools in York.
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
- Heslington Lane, Fulford, York, YO10 4LX
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- York
- Pupils on roll
- 321 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 10 April 2024
Strengths
- “Care, kindness, and warmth are on offer to all who attend St Oswald’s.”
- “The staff, pupils and local school community work in harmony.”
- “Staff and pupils live and breathe the school’s vision of ‘Learning for all, caring for each other, preparing for the future’.”
To improve
- “However, these ambitious changes are at an earlier stage of development.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 May 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) | 72% | 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: 52 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 39 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.
- Knavesmire Primary School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St George's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fishergate Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Lawrence's Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Lord Deramore's Primary School 1.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Scarcroft Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Badger Hill Primary Academy 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bishopthorpe Infant School 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published