Oatlands Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.981 miles
Published by North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Oatlands Infant School is a primary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 17 December 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Oatlands Infant 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 | 2.981 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 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 2.981 miles away, the 20th longest of 50 North Yorkshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.61 miles).
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years; the 2026 figure was nearer the school than the 2025 one.
- For Reception 2026, 93 first-choice applications for 89 offers; 88 offers went to first-choice families and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 0.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire is 11.5%.
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
- Hookstone Road, Harrogate, HG2 8BT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 269 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 0.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 17 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be a part of Oatlands Infant School.”
- “They thrive in this inclusive environment.”
- “The school prioritises developing pupils’ character and physical activity.”
To improve
- “However, there are some inconsistencies in the expectations regarding the quality of work in some lessons.”
- “The school has rightly identified pupils’ writing as an area of development.”
- “While this work is ongoing, pupils still have not had enough high-quality opportunities to develop their writing through the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 93 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 88 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.
- Oatlands Community Junior School 0.2 mi Not judged
- Rossett Acre Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Western Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Willow Tree Community Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pannal Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Harrogate, Grove Road Community Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Robert's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.6 mi Good Last distance published