St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Ripon, North Yorkshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Yorkshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2011–2025 trend 🔒
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy is a primary school in Ripon, North Yorkshire for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 17 June 2025. North Yorkshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2011 to 2026 entry.
St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, a 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 | 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 5 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 78% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 22% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 211 of the 285 other North Yorkshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 16 first-choice applications for 17 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Church Lane, Ripon, HG4 2ES
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- North Yorkshire
- Pupils on roll
- 151 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 17 June 2025
Strengths
- “The school’s vision that pupils should ‘learn to love and love to learn’ is alive and well at St Wilfrid’s.”
- “The school virtues of friendship, courage and forgiveness run like a rod of iron through all that the school does.”
- “As a result, pupils are grateful, friendly, honest and fair, as expected in the school’s golden rules.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not achieve as well as they could in writing.”
- “At times, they are unsure how to use the right language and structure in their writing.”
- “This means they do not always develop their writing skills as securely as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 July 2025 (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) | 78% | 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: 16 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 16 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.
- Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ripon Cathedral Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Moorside Primary School & Nursery 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Outwood Primary Academy Greystone 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sharow Church of England Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bishop Monkton Church of England Primary School 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
- North Stainley Church of England Primary School 3.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Markington Church of England Primary & Nursery School 4.2 mi Good Last distance published