Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · York
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.074 miles
Published by City of York Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy is a primary school in York for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 February 2024. York has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary 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 | 2.074 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 2.074 miles away, the 4th longest of 11 York primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 58 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 57 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result ranked 4th lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in York that have results.
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
- Hamilton Drive, York, YO24 4JW
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- York
- Pupils on roll
- 415 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 February 2024
Strengths
- “This school is at the heart of the local community.”
- “It is a place where pupils thrive.”
- “Parents talk about their children flourishing in this nurturing environment.”
To improve
- “In some of these subjects, teaching choices about how to deliver the key knowledge identified in the curriculum are not precise enough.”
- “This causes confusion for pupils.”
- “They struggle to recall and connect key subject knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 March 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) | 61% | 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: 58 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 57 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.
- Acomb Primary School 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hob Moor Community Primary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Scarcroft Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Dringhouses Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Poppleton Road Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Saint Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Knavesmire Primary School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published