How hard is it to get into St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School?

In the 2025 intake St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School received 19 first preferences and made 19 offers. That is 1.00 first preferences for every place. It describes demand. It does not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School

Q: Does St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School have a catchment area?

York publishes an admission zone for St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School.

URN 121474 · Primary · Voluntary controlled school · York

St Paul's Terrace, York, YO24 4BJ

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, 19 families named St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 19 offers.

That is 1.00 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 53% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.12 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake	1st preferences	All preferences	Offers made	1st prefs per place
2025	19	69	19	1.00
2024	22	80	24	0.92
2023	20	93	25	0.80
2022	22	86	27	0.81
2021	40	120	28	1.43
2020	31	109	28	1.11
2019	24	106	25	0.96
2018	19	102	25	0.76
2017	41	149	28	1.46
2016	26	113	27	0.96
2015	36	137	27	1.33
2014	43	131	25	1.72

“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 ungraded inspection, 22 March 2023

School remains Good

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.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year	Expected standard in reading, writing & maths	Higher standard	Average reading score	Average maths score
2024/25	54.0%	13.0%	105.0	106.0
2023/24	64.0%	18.0%	109.0	107.0
2022/23	71.0%	0.0%	109.0	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	9.0	9.0	0.0	0.0	0.0%
2023/24	9.0	9.0	0.0	0.0	0.0%
2022/23	9.9	7.4	0.0	2.5	25.3%
2021/22	8.4	8.4	0.0	0.0	0.0%
2020/21	9.8	8.8	1.0	0.0	10.2%
2019/20	8.3	7.3	0.0	1.0	12.0%

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 (St Paul's CE Primary), in force from 2025.

Covers: 77 live postcodes across 0.740 km².

54 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.