Markington Church of England Primary & Nursery School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–11 · Harrogate, 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 🔒
Markington Church of England Primary & Nursery School is a primary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire for ages 3–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 April 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
Markington Church of England Primary & Nursery 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 5 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 drew 7 first-choice applications for 6 offers, 1.2 first choices per offer, the 23rd highest of 278 North Yorkshire primary schools.
- For Reception 2026, 6 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (14%) was not offered a place.
- With 53 pupils on roll in January 2026, the school has 12 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.1 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
- High Street, Markington, Harrogate, HG3 3NR
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 53 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 April 2024
Strengths
- “Markington Church of England Primary & Nursery School is wonderfully caring and aspirational.”
- “The school’s motto, ‘Make full use of the gift God gave you’, is important to pupils and staff.”
- “This makes the school wonderfully inclusive.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, the curriculum needs some refinement to ensure teachers provide regular opportunities for pupils to revisit their prior learning and remember their learning over time.”
- “In a small number of subjects, lessons do not provide regular opportunities for pupils to revisit prior learning.”
- “This means that, occasionally, some pupils do not remember the important knowledge that they need to be ready for the next stage of learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 7 first-preference applications, 6 offers in total, 6 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.
- Burton Leonard Church of England Primary School 2.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ripley Endowed Church of England School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Bishop Monkton Church of England Primary School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Admiral Long Church of England Primary School 3.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Outwood Primary Academy Greystone 3.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Moorside Primary School & Nursery 3.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Killinghall Church of England Primary School 4.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Scotton Lingerfield Primary School 4.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published