The School Record

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

Topcliffe CofE Academy

URN 144840 · Primary · Academy converter · North Yorkshire

School Lane, Thirsk, YO7 3RG

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, 13 families named Topcliffe CofE Academy as their first preference, and the school made 13 offers.

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

More first preferences per place than 53% 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 1.0 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 8 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 13 37 13 1.00
2024 10 36 10 1.00
2023 17 41 15 1.13
2022 15 27 15 1.00
2021 10 23 10 1.00
2020 19 25 19 1.00
2019 17 32 16 1.06
2018 18 27 16 1.12

“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 inspections from 2020 to 202520202025

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 23 April 2025

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: Outstanding

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 4 March 2020

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 53.0% 20.0% 105.0 105.0
2023/24 76.0% 18.0% 107.0 107.0
2022/23 83.0% 33.0% 106.0 108.0

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 5.6 4.6 0.0 1.0 17.9%
2023/24 5.6 5.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 5.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 5.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 60.0%
2020/21 5.4 5.0 0.0 0.4 7.4%
2019/20 6.0 4.0 2.0 0.0 33.3%

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 (Topcliffe CofE Academy).

Covers: 92 live postcodes across 32.864 km².

2 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 (Topcliffe CE Primary Academy & Dishforth CE Primary School).

Covers: 22 live postcodes across 6.390 km².

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

1 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: Dishforth Church of England Voluntary Controlled 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 Topcliffe CofE Academy. 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 Topcliffe CofE Academy.

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.