St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Harrogate, A Voluntary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Harrogate, A Voluntary Academy is a primary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 30 April 2025. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Harrogate, A Voluntary Academy 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 2011 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception in 2026, as at 211 of the 285 other North Yorkshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 20 first-choice applications for 20 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 80% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 80% was the highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire that have results.
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
- Coppice Rise, North Yorkshire, Harrogate, HG1 2DP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 191 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 30 April 2025
Strengths
- “St Joseph’s is a warm and nurturing school where pupils thrive.”
- “The school’s vision to ‘let all that you do be done in love’ is realised in the deeply respectful relationships that pupils have with one another.”
- “Pupils describe their school, rightly, as ‘supportive and fun’.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the information from these checks is not used to adapt future teaching.”
- “When this happens, the gaps in pupils’ knowledge go unaddressed and misconceptions persist.”
- “However, sometimes the tasks that teachers give to pupils with SEND are not sufficiently matched to their needs.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 June 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) | 80% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 20 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.
- Coppice Valley Primary School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- New Park Primary Academy 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Harrogate, Bilton Grange Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Harrogate, Grove Road Community Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Richard Taylor Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Saltergate Infant School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Saltergate Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Robert's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published