Burneston Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 5–11 · Bedale, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
6.172 miles
Published by North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2014–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Burneston Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School is a primary school in Bedale, North Yorkshire for ages 5–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 July 2023. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2014 to 2026 entry.
Burneston Church of England Voluntary Aided 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 | 6.172 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 5 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 6.172 miles away, the 3rd longest of 50 North Yorkshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- There were 21 first-choice applications for 19 Reception offers in 2026; 18 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (14%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 56% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% 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
- Burneston, Bedale, DL8 2HX
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 119 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 3 July 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders, staff, pupils and governors are proud of their school.”
- “Pupils come into school excited to see their friends and ready to learn.”
- “Parents and carers are overwhelmingly positive about the education that their children receive.”
To improve
- “As the curriculum for this subject is still relatively new, pupils do not remember and draw sufficiently upon previous knowledge, and they still have some gaps in their learning.”
- “In some year groups, some pupils are not applying the spelling patterns and grammar rules that they have learned, and the quality of pupils’ handwriting is variable.”
- “This impedes the fluency of the recording of learning across the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 September 2023 (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) | 56% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 18 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.
- Leeming RAF Community Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Snape Community Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Pickhill Church of England Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bedale Church of England Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leeming St. John's Church of England Primary School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- South Otterington Church of England Primary School 4.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Thornton Watlass Church of England Primary School 4.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, West Tanfield 4.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published