The School Record

Masham CofE Primary School

Primary school · North Yorkshire

Masham, Ripon, HG4 4EG

This school became an academy on 1 February 2026. Before that it was a voluntary aided school, under Masham CofE VA Primary School (URN 121613).

Ofsted category of concern: Special measures

At its inspection on 30 January 2024 (Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework)), this school was placed in the category special measures.

Ofsted judged the school to be failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education, and not to have the capacity to make the necessary improvements without help.

This is about that one inspection. Schools do come out of these categories. This page does not tell you where the school stands today. Check that with Ofsted.

About the school

Type of school
Academy
Academy trust
Yorkshire Causeway Schools Trust
Became an academy
1 February 2026. Before that it was a voluntary aided school, under Masham CofE VA Primary School (URN 121613).
Ages
4 to 11
Boys or girls
Boys and girls
Religious character
Church of England, Diocese of Leeds
Nursery classes
No
Website
https://www.masham.ycst.co.uk
Telephone
01765 689200
School number (URN)
151856

Other schools run by Yorkshire Causeway Schools Trust

Yorkshire Causeway Schools Trust runs 9 other schools with a page here.

From Get Information about Schools, retrieved 2 September 2026. Schools update their own entries, so these can be out of date.

Who decides who gets a place

This school sets its own admission rules, through its academy trust, rather than North Yorkshire setting them.

Look on the school's own website for its admission arrangements. An admission authority has to agree its rules every year and publish them. The council still takes the application.

Taken from the kind of school this is, as recorded by the Department for Education. We do not hold this school's rules themselves: a summary of an admission rule is not the rule, and only the admission authority's own published arrangements are binding.

How to apply

Applications for a place starting in September 2027 close on 15 January 2027, the date the School Admissions Code sets for every council in England.

Councils send every offer for primary school places on the same day, 16 April 2027 or the next working day.

You apply through the council where you live, even for a school in another area. You do not apply to the school. Find your council's primary school application on GOV.UK.

If you live in North Yorkshire, the council's own page explains how to apply there. North Yorkshire school admissions.

To ask about visiting the school, or anything else about it, contact the school. Website: https://www.masham.ycst.co.uk. Telephone: 01765 689200.

Links and dates can change. Your council's own website has the final word. The dates are set nationally by the School Admissions Code 2021. GOV.UK link checked 23 September 2026. North Yorkshire's page checked 23 September 2026. Contact details from Get Information about Schools.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand, not whether a particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2026 intake, 4 families named Masham CofE Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 4 offers.

No per-place figure is published for this year: the school offered 4 places, too few for a ratio to mean anything.

Compared with its own past

Fewer families than its recent average put this school first.

In 2026, 4 families put this school first. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 10 a year.

In 2026, 13 families named this school somewhere on their list. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 16 a year.

In 2026, every family who put this school first was offered a place here (4 of 4). In 2021 to 2025 it was 98 in every 100.

In 2026, 0 of the 4 offers went to children living outside North Yorkshire. In 2021 to 2025 the average was 0 a year.

Some of the earlier years are for Masham CofE VA Primary School, the school this one replaced.

Each figure is compared only with the same figure at this school. "About the same" means within 10 in every 100 of the average.

First preferences and offers at Reception

Families naming Masham CofE Primary School first, against the offers it made, for every intake year held.

First preferences from 13 in 2014 to 4 in 2026; Offers made from 13 in 2014 to 4 in 202601020302014201620182020202220242026Offers made4First preferences4
Source: Department for Education, school-level applications and offers. Preferences count families. Offers count places given out on offer day. The vertical axis does not start at zero.

Figures before 2026 are from Masham CofE VA Primary School, the school this one replaced, before it became an academy. The government's school register links the two, and they are the same school.

Applications and offers at Reception, 13 intake years
Intake 1st preferences1st choice All preferencesAny choice Offers madeOffers 1st prefs per placePer place
2026 4 13 4 -
2025
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 6 12 6 -
2024
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 13 21 13 1.00
2023
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 9 16 8 -
2022
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 10 15 11 0.91
2021
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 10 14 10 1.00
2020
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 17 20 17 1.00
2019
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 14 17 14 1.00
2018
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 22 25 22 1.00
2017
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 18 23 18 1.00
2016
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 13 16 13 1.00
2015
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 19 25 19 1.00
2014
as Masham CofE VA Primary School		 13 18 13 1.00

“Offers made” is the number of offers on offer day, not the number of places the school has.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

Where families put this school on their list

In 2026 this school made 4 offers, and every one of them went to a family who had named it first.

A school is not allowed to treat a family differently because of where it sat on their list. The School Admissions Code says an admission authority must not give extra priority to children whose parents rank preferred schools in a particular order.

The order is used at the end, by the council, and not by the school. Where more than one school could take a child, the council offers the one the family put highest.

Leaving the other boxes empty does not change how this school considers an application. If none of the schools a family names can offer a place, the council has to offer one at a school that has room, and that school may be further away.

Source: Department for Education school level applications and offers, and the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraphs 1.9 and 2.11.

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), 30 January 2024

This inspection relates to a predecessor of the current school.

Category of concern: Special measures

Overall effectiveness
Inadequate
Quality of education
Inadequate
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Early years
Requires improvement

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 14 September 2026. All sources.

If you are refused a place

In 2026, families in North Yorkshire lodged 86 appeals about a primary school place.

53 of them were heard by a panel and 10 succeeded, which is about 19 in every 100 heard.

The other 33 did not reach a panel. Most appeals that do not are withdrawn because a place comes up first.

Reception is an infant class, and the law caps an infant class at 30 children. A panel hearing an appeal about an infant class can only agree in three situations: the place was refused by mistake, the admission rules were not applied properly, or the decision was one no reasonable council would have made. It cannot simply decide that the child should have the place.

Of the 42 infant class appeals heard in North Yorkshire in 2026, 9 succeeded.

This is a record of decisions already made. A panel hears one case at a time and decides it on what that family sets out, so these figures do not indicate what would happen in any particular appeal.

These count appeals about every school in North Yorkshire, not this school. Nobody publishes appeal figures school by school.

Source: Department for Education, admission appeals in England, reporting year 2026.

Waiting lists

Being refused a place does not end the application. Every admission authority has to keep a waiting list until at least 31 December of the school year the child would have started, and some keep them for longer.

A waiting list is not a queue. The rules say a child cannot be given priority for having joined it earlier, or for having applied earlier. The list is put back in order against the school's own admission rules every time a child is added, so a place can move further away as well as nearer.

Councils differ on whether a refused child goes onto the list automatically. The council that sent the refusal is the only place that can say which it does.

From the School Admissions Code 2021, paragraph 2.15.

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.

Where it is, and schools nearby

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Masham CofE Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

Using this information

This is information only, not advice. It may have mistakes in it, or be out of date. Check with the school and the council before you decide anything. We collect these figures from official publications and check them, but mistakes can get through. If you find one, tell us.

Figures current as of 14 September 2026.

This page was updated on 5 November 2026. "Retrieved" is the date of our copy of each source, not the year its figures describe. How we compare schools.