Ralph Butterfield Primary School
URN 121299 · Primary · Community school · York
Station Road, York, YO32 3LS
How many families applied
Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.
In the 2025 intake, 35 families named Ralph Butterfield Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 36 offers.
That is 0.97 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 48% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.
position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake
Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.97 in 2021–2022 and 0.99 in 2024–2025.
| Intake | 1st preferences | All preferences | Offers made | 1st prefs per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | 75 | 36 | 0.97 |
| 2024 | 50 | 88 | 50 | 1.00 |
| 2023 | 40 | 102 | 40 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 50 | 105 | 50 | 1.00 |
| 2021 | 30 | 86 | 32 | 0.94 |
| 2020 | 44 | 112 | 44 | 1.00 |
| 2019 | 34 | 101 | 35 | 0.97 |
| 2018 | 34 | 133 | 44 | 0.77 |
| 2017 | 41 | 112 | 42 | 0.98 |
| 2016 | 49 | 118 | 50 | 0.98 |
| 2015 | 47 | 109 | 47 | 1.00 |
| 2014 | 49 | 116 | 50 | 0.98 |
“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.
Ofsted
Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.
Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 20 February 2024
Overall effectiveness: Good
Quality of education: Good
Behaviour and attitudes: Good
Personal development: Good
Leadership and management: Good
Early years: Good
Sixth form / post-16: 9
Ofsted's report for this school
Exam results
Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.
| Year | Expected standard in reading, writing & maths | Higher standard | Average reading score | Average maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 86.0% | 18.0% | 109.0 | 107.0 |
| 2023/24 | 85.0% | 17.0% | 108.0 | 106.0 |
| 2022/23 | 80.0% | 18.0% | 108.0 | 105.0 |
Teachers staying and leaving
These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.
| Census year | Teachers (FTE) | Still there a year later | Moved to another state school | Left state schools | Left in total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 12.4 | 12.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.4% |
| 2023/24 | 11.3 | 10.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 3.5% |
| 2022/23 | 10.6 | 10.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 2021/22 | 10.4 | 9.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 9.6% |
| 2020/21 | 12.1 | 8.7 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 28.1% |
| 2019/20 | 12.5 | 11.1 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 11.2% |
This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.
Catchment area
York publishes an admission zone for this school (Ralph Butterfield Primary), in force from 2025.
Covers: 126 live postcodes across 5.059 km².
44 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.
How places were allocated
York publishes these figures on national offer day, the day families are told which school their child has been given. It is the only place that says how the school chose between the children who applied.
2025 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 37
2024 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 50
2023 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 41
2022 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 50
2021 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 32
2020 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 45
2019 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 35
2018 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 43
More children wanted a place than there were places: yes
2017 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 42
2016 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 50
2015 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 47
2014 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 50
2013 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 50
2012 intake
Places the school planned to fill: 50
Places offered: 49
How the places were shared out
Schools that get more applications than they have places have to choose. Each school has a list of rules, and it works down the list until the places run out. York publishes how many children got in under each rule. These are York's own names for its own rules, so they do not mean the same thing at a school in another area.
2025 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 22 |
| Distance | 8 |
| Sibling | 4 |
| Social or medical need | 3 |
| All the children counted here | 37 |
2024 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 23 |
| Distance | 15 |
| Sibling | 12 |
| All the children counted here | 50 |
2023 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 28 |
| Distance | 10 |
| Social or medical need | 2 |
| Sibling | 1 |
| All the children counted here | 41 |
2022 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 36 |
| Sibling | 8 |
| Distance | 6 |
| All the children counted here | 50 |
2021 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 21 |
| Distance | 5 |
| Sibling | 5 |
| Social or medical need | 1 |
| All the children counted here | 32 |
2020 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 31 |
| Distance | 8 |
| Sibling | 4 |
| Social or medical need | 2 |
| All the children counted here | 45 |
2019 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 23 |
| Sibling | 7 |
| Distance | 5 |
| All the children counted here | 35 |
2018 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 25 |
| Distance | 9 |
| Sibling | 9 |
| All the children counted here | 43 |
2017 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 27 |
| Distance | 7 |
| Sibling | 7 |
| Social or medical need | 1 |
| All the children counted here | 42 |
2016 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 35 |
| Distance | 10 |
| Sibling | 4 |
| Social or medical need | 1 |
| All the children counted here | 50 |
2015 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 34 |
| Distance | 7 |
| Sibling | 4 |
| Social or medical need | 2 |
| All the children counted here | 47 |
2014 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 34 |
| Distance | 10 |
| Sibling | 6 |
| All the children counted here | 50 |
2013 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 37 |
| Distance | 9 |
| Sibling | 4 |
| All the children counted here | 50 |
2012 intake
| Rule | Children who got in this way |
|---|---|
| Catchment | 31 |
| Distance | 9 |
| Sibling | 9 |
| All the children counted here | 49 |
A rule that let nobody in that year is not listed. Some children are given a place at a school they did not ask for, because they have to go somewhere, and no rule applies to them.
Where it is
The shaded shape is the area the council published for Ralph Butterfield Primary School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.
The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Ralph Butterfield Primary School.
- Headlands Primary School: 0.9 km (0.6 miles) south-west, York
- Wigginton Primary School: 1.2 km (0.7 miles) west, York
- Huntington Primary Academy: 2.5 km (1.6 miles) south, York
- New Earswick Primary School: 2.7 km (1.7 miles) south, York
- Robert Wilkinson Primary Academy: 2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east, York
- Yearsley Grove Primary School: 4.1 km (2.5 miles) south, York
Nearby and related
- Other schools near Ralph Butterfield Primary School
- All schools in York
- Schools in the YO32 postcode district
- What data we hold
- This page as JSON: the same figures, for software that would rather not read a web page
Where these figures come from
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase and address
Retrieved 2 September 2026 - Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2014 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - York: offer-day statistics. Admissions Summary Allocated, primary 2025, City of York Council
Retrieved 5 September 2026 - York: admission rule breakdown. How places were shared out, 2012 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 5 September 2026 - Department for Education: key stage 2 attainment. Reading, writing and maths outcomes, by school
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school workforce in England. Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - York: school admission zones. arcgis fetch 2026-09-05
Retrieved 5 September 2026
This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.