Starbeck Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Starbeck Primary Academy is a primary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 March 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Starbeck Primary 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 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
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but a last distance was published in 2 of the 6 earlier years.
- In 2024/25, 31% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire.
- In Reception 2026 there were 25 first-choice applications for 25 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- The school has 26 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire.
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
- High Street, Starbeck, Harrogate, HG2 7LL
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 234 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this inclusive and caring school.”
- “They describe Starbeck as having ‘something for everyone’ and where ‘all people are treated the same’.”
- “Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), have a good understanding of equality.”
To improve
- “However, there is not a consistent approach to developing fluency when staff listen to pupils read.”
- “In this regard, the school does not use its phonics assessment consistently.”
- “The books that pupils are given to read do not always match the sounds that they have learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 May 2024 (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) | 31% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 25 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.
- Hookstone Chase Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Willow Tree Community Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Robert's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Primary School Knaresborough, A Voluntary Catholic Academy 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Knaresborough St John's Church of England Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Harrogate, Grove Road Community Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Richard Taylor Church of England Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Harrogate, Bilton Grange Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published