Captain Cook Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Marton, Middlesbrough
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
18.318 miles
Published by Middlesbrough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Captain Cook Primary School is a primary school in Marton, Middlesbrough for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 23 November 2022. Middlesbrough has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Captain Cook 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 | 18.318 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
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 18.318 miles away, the longest of the 41 Middlesbrough primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance moved further out from 2025 to 2026, its sharpest swing, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 42 first-choice applications for 49 offers; 41 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (2%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 75% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 16% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Middlesbrough schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Stokesley Road, Marton, TS7 8DU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Middlesbrough
- Pupils on roll
- 415 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 23 November 2022
Strengths
- “There is a strong caring ethos at the school.”
- “This is because leaders place pupils’ best interests at the heart of their decision-making.”
- “Leaders strive to offer a curriculum that supports their core values of ‘Discovery and Adventure’ and fosters the personal traits of ‘Endeavour and Resolution’.”
To improve
- “Opportunities to reason and problem-solve are less frequent.”
- “This impacts on pupils’ ability to explain and extend their mathematical thinking.”
- “Occasionally, books are not matched well, and this can impact on pupils’ reading fluency.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 January 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) | 75% | 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: 42 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 41 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 Middlesbrough.
- Lingfield Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Marton Manor Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- The Avenue Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Easterside Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas More RC Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Chandlers Ridge Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published