Follifoot Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–11 · Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Follifoot Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire for ages 5–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 July 2025. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Follifoot Church of England 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 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 had 3 first-choice applications for 3 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but in the 1 earlier year with a published outcome, 2019, places ran out and a last distance was published.
- 2 of the 17 Reception 2026 applications (12%) came from families living outside North Yorkshire, and 0 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 88% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%); 13% 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
- Main Street, Follifoot, Harrogate, HG3 1DU
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 42 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 July 2025
Strengths
- “The school’s values of ‘love, learn and thrive’ are realised through the kindness pupils show towards one another.”
- “Deeply respectful relationships exist between adults and pupils.”
- “This means pupils feel happy and safe.”
To improve
- “The school has recently been through an unsettling period due to repeated changes of leadership.”
- “However, this recent disruption has led to delays in establishing effective systems for checking the quality of the wider curriculum.”
- “As a result, those with responsibility for governance do not have a clear enough picture of the impact the curriculum is having on pupils’ learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 September 2025 (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) | 88% | 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: 3 first-preference applications, 3 offers in total, 3 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.
- Spofforth Church of England Controlled Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hookstone Chase Primary School 1.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Oatlands Community Junior School 2.0 mi Not judged
- Willow Tree Community Primary School 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- All Saints Church of England School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oatlands Infant School 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pannal Primary School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Starbeck Primary Academy 2.5 mi Good Last distance published