The School Record

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

Western Primary School

URN 142220 · Primary · Academy converter · North Yorkshire

Cold Bath Road, Harrogate, HG2 0NA

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, 73 families named Western Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 59 offers.

That is 1.24 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 92% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 92% 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 1.25 in 2021–2022 and 1.18 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 10 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 73 196 59 1.24
2024 66 227 59 1.12
2023 68 220 58 1.17
2022 65 162 60 1.08
2021 85 186 60 1.42
2020 62 154 60 1.03
2019 72 182 60 1.20
2018 37 110 37 1.00
2017 37 106 39 0.95
2016 58 131 58 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, 21 March 2024

School remains Outstanding

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 70.0% 13.0% 107.0 104.0
2023/24 62.0% 7.0% 105.0 104.0
2022/23 68.0% 7.0% 106.0 103.0

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 17.5 16.6 0.0 0.9 5.1%
2023/24 19.0 16.0 0.0 3.0 15.8%
2022/23 20.1 18.5 0.0 1.6 8.0%
2021/22 17.8 17.2 0.0 0.6 3.4%
2020/21 21.0 17.8 1.0 2.2 15.2%
2019/20 17.9 15.9 0.0 2.0 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

North Yorkshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Western Primary School).

Covers: 283 live postcodes across 6.242 km².

122 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.

North Yorkshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Western Primary School & St Peter's CE Primary School).

Covers: 36 live postcodes across 0.287 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of St Peter's Church of England Primary School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

27 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.

Shared with: St Peter's Church of England Primary School. The council publishes one area for these schools together, so the same streets belong to all of them.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Western 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 Western 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.