Keeble Gateway Academy
Primary · Free schools · Ages 3–11 · Thirsk, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Keeble Gateway Academy is a primary school in Thirsk, North Yorkshire for ages 3–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 January 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Keeble Gateway 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 there were 29 first-choice applications for 28 offers; 28 went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (3%) was not offered a place.
- At 1.0 first choices per offer for Reception 2026, it was the 44th highest of 278 North Yorkshire primary schools.
- Ofsted rated the school Good on 23 January 2024; of the 8 nearest primary schools in North Yorkshire, 3 are Good and 5 have no current grade.
- 18.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 15.3% 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
- Inspiration Way, Sowerby, Thirsk, YO7 1TS
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 January 2024
Strengths
- “Keeble Gateway Academy is a happy and welcoming school.”
- “The values of kindness, respect, self-belief and aspiration are central to the life of the school.”
- “Staff support pupils’ emotional needs.”
To improve
- “However, some parents say that the school does not always communicate well with them.”
- “They are less confident when recalling previous learning.”
- “In a small number of subjects, pupils do not develop the breadth and depth of knowledge that they need in order to make progress.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 February 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 29 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 28 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.
- Sowerby Primary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- All Saints Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Thirsk Community Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Carlton Miniott Primary Academy 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- South Kilvington Church of England Academy 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alanbrooke Academy 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Topcliffe CofE Academy 3.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sessay Church of England Primary School 4.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published