The School Record

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

Osbaldwick Primary Academy

URN 146028 · Primary · Academy converter · York

The Leyes/The Lane, York, YO10 3AX

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, 30 families named Osbaldwick Primary Academy as their first preference, and the school made 30 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 0.89 in 2021–2022 and 0.95 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 7 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 30 58 30 1.00
2024 28 60 31 0.90
2023 43 66 44 0.98
2022 29 71 32 0.91
2021 28 61 32 0.88
2020 36 78 45 0.80
2019 32 70 34 0.94

“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), 8 July 2025

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Outstanding

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.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 60.0% 12.0% 104.0 104.0
2023/24 68.0% 21.0% 107.0 107.0
2022/23 72.0% 18.0% 105.0 107.0

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 12.6 11.2 1.0 0.4 11.1%
2023/24 15.4 12.6 1.6 1.2 18.2%
2022/23 13.0 13.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 13.8 12.5 0.2 1.1 9.4%
2020/21 15.7 14.7 1.0 0.0 6.4%
2019/20 13.2 12.6 0.0 0.6 4.5%

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 (Osbaldwick Primary), in force from 2025.

Covers: 187 live postcodes across 6.268 km².

70 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: 45

Places offered: 30

2024 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 45

Places offered: 31

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2023 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 45

Places offered: 44

2022 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 45

Places offered: 32

2021 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 45

Places offered: 32

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2020 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 45

Places offered: 45

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2019 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 45

Places offered: 34

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2018 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 47

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2017 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 30

2016 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 36

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2015 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 39

More children wanted a place than there were places: yes

2014 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 60

Places offered: 42

2013 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 30

Places offered: 31

2012 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 30

Places offered: 30

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

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment22
Distance4
Sibling4
All the children counted here30

2024 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment21
Distance6
Sibling3
All the children counted here30

2023 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment33
Sibling6
Distance5
All the children counted here44

2022 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment25
Distance4
Sibling3
All the children counted here32

2021 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment26
Distance3
Sibling2
All the children counted here31

2020 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment37
Sibling4
Distance2
Social or medical need1
All the children counted here44

2019 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment23
Sibling7
Distance4
All the children counted here34

2018 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment25
Distance12
Sibling7
Social or medical need3
All the children counted here47

2017 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment19
Distance5
Sibling5
Social or medical need1
All the children counted here30

2016 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment24
Distance7
Sibling5
All the children counted here36

2015 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment22
Distance7
Sibling7
All the children counted here36

2014 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment29
Sibling10
Distance2
Social or medical need1
All the children counted here42

2013 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment15
Distance12
Sibling4
All the children counted here31

2012 intake

RuleChildren who got in this way
Catchment18
Distance8
Sibling4
All the children counted here30

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 Osbaldwick Primary 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 Osbaldwick Primary 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.