How hard is it to get into St Aelred's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy?

In the 2025 intake St Aelred's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy received 12 first preferences and made 14 offers. That is 0.86 first preferences for every place. It describes demand. It does not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

St Aelred's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy

Q: Does St Aelred's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy have a catchment area?

We hold no published admission zone for this school. That is not the same as an address being outside one. We cannot say either way.

URN 147416 · Primary · Academy converter · York

Fifth Avenue, York, YO31 0QQ

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, 12 families named St Aelred's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy as their first preference, and the school made 14 offers.

That is 0.86 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 14% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.9 in 2021–2022 and 0.91 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 6 intake years
Intake	1st preferences	All preferences	Offers made	1st prefs per place
2025	12	30	14	0.86
2024	26	54	27	0.96
2023	21	44	23	0.91
2022	16	41	19	0.84
2021	24	42	25	0.96
2020	18	51	23	0.78

“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), 23 January 2024

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

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	52.0%	0.0%	105.0	102.0
2023/24	32.0%	3.0%	99.0	99.0
2022/23	38.0%	4.0%	106.0	100.0

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	9.2	9.2	0.0	0.0	0.0%
2023/24	9.7	7.3	0.4	2.0	24.7%
2022/23	9.8	7.1	0.7	2.0	27.6%
2021/22	9.4	8.2	0.0	1.2	12.8%
2020/21	10.7	10.2	0.0	0.5	4.7%
2019/20	9.2	9.2	0.0	0.0	0.0%

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

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

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.