Bishopthorpe Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–7 · York
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From City of York Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bishopthorpe Infant School is a primary school in York for ages 5–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 25 February 2025. York has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Bishopthorpe Infant 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 33 of the 47 other York primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 22 first-choice applications for 22 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- There are 27.4 pupils per teacher, compared with a middle figure of 22.8 across the 8 nearest primary schools in York.
- Of its pupils, 5.2% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 9.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in York.
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
- Sim Balk Lane, Bishopthorpe, York, YO23 2QQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- York
- Pupils on roll
- 97 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 25 February 2025
Strengths
- “Bishopthorpe Infant School is a safe and welcoming environment for pupils.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff are kind and friendly.”
- “As a result, pupils feel safe and are happy at school.”
To improve
- “While children in Reception get off to a flying start, in some subjects, pupils are not consistently ready for the junior school curriculum.”
- “However, in some foundation subjects, teaching does not help pupils to learn as well as they could.”
- “Pupils do not secure a firm foundation on which to build new learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 22 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 22 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.
- Archbishop of York's CofE Junior School, Bishopthorpe 0.1 mi Good
- Dringhouses Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Naburn Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Woodthorpe Primary School 1.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Knavesmire Primary School 1.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Oswald's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Copmanthorpe Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy 2.1 mi Good Last distance published