Knavesmire Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · York
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.94 miles
Published by City of York Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Knavesmire Primary School is a primary school in York for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 11 October 2022. York has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Knavesmire 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 | 1.94 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.94 miles away, 5th longest of 11 York primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.06 miles).
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between 2024 and 2025, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 60 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 59 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (2%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 84% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in York.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other York schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Trafalgar Street, York, YO23 1HY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- York
- Pupils on roll
- 484 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 11 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils receive a wonderful start to their education.”
- “They have many opportunities to develop academically and emotionally.”
- “Leaders are highly ambitious for what pupils can achieve.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 2022 (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) | 84% | 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: 60 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 59 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 York.
- Scarcroft Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St George's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fishergate Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dringhouses Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Oswald's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Lawrence's Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published