Sinnington Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · York, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.125 miles
Published by North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2014–2025 trend 🔒
Sinnington Community Primary School is a primary school in York, North Yorkshire for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 23 January 2024. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2014 to 2026 entry.
Sinnington Community 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 | 4.125 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 4.125 miles away, 9th longest of 50 North Yorkshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.61 miles).
- That 2026 distance was further than in 2025 and in 2021; in 1 of the 5 years with a published outcome, every applicant was offered a place.
- Reception 2026 drew 12 first-choice applications for 10 offers; 9 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (25%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 100% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Friars Hill, Sinnington, York, YO62 6SL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 110 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 1.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 23 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at this school thrive in a happy, caring and safe environment.”
- “The school’s important value of being ‘respectful’ is evident across the whole school.”
- “Pupils demonstrate high standards of behaviour.”
To improve
- “However, the curriculums in some subjects do not clearly identify the crucial knowledge that pupils should learn.”
- “Sometimes, pupils are presented with too much information.”
- “This means that sometimes pupils do not recall the important points that they need to remember.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 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) | 100% | 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: 12 first-preference applications, 10 offers in total, 9 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.
- Kirkbymoorside Community Primary School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pickering Community Junior School 3.4 mi School remains Good
- Pickering Community Infant School 3.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Gillamoor Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 4.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Nawton Community Primary School 5.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thornton Dale CofE Primary School 5.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Rosedale Abbey Community Primary School 6.4 mi Good Last distance published