The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Bedale Church of England Primary School

URN 121479 · Primary · Voluntary controlled school · North Yorkshire

Firby Road, Bedale, DL8 2AT

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, 43 families named Bedale Church of England Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 44 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 50% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 50% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.0 in 2021–2022 and 0.99 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 43 67 44 0.98
2024 33 57 33 1.00
2023 44 64 43 1.02
2022 46 59 46 1.00
2021 38 50 38 1.00
2020 47 59 47 1.00
2019 39 45 39 1.00
2018 52 67 53 0.98
2017 36 49 36 1.00
2016 56 66 47 1.19
2015 46 53 46 1.00
2014 41 47 41 1.00

“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, 29 November 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 77.0% 14.0% 106.0 106.0
2023/24 80.0% 12.0% 107.0 105.0
2022/23 77.0% 16.0% 106.0 106.0

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 yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 15.2 14.2 0.0 1.0 6.6%
2023/24 17.2 14.0 1.0 2.2 18.6%
2022/23 17.7 13.7 2.0 2.0 22.6%
2021/22 16.2 13.6 0.4 2.2 16.0%
2020/21 16.4 15.2 0.0 1.2 7.3%
2019/20 18.6 13.6 0.0 5.0 26.9%

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

North Yorkshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Bedale Church of England Primary School).

Covers: 192 live postcodes across 14.135 km².

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Bedale Church of England 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 Bedale Church of England Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

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.