Graded inspection · Jan 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in North Yorkshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry45 applications · 28 places offered · 29 named it first
- 2026 1.6; North Yorkshire median median 2.5
- 2025 2.4; North Yorkshire median median 2.3
- 2024 1.9; North Yorkshire median median 2.4
- 2023 2.0; North Yorkshire median median 2.3
- 2022 2.0; North Yorkshire median median 1.7
- 2021 1.6; North Yorkshire median median 1.6
- 2020 1.6; North Yorkshire median median 1.7
- This school
- North Yorkshire median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 28 | 45 | 1.6 | 29 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2025 | 21 | 51 | 2.4 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 30 | 58 | 1.9 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2023 | 30 | 61 | 2.0 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2022 | 26 | 52 | 2.0 | 26 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 30 | 49 | 1.6 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2020 | 27 | 43 | 1.6 | 26 | 0.96 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25all three met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- North Yorkshire median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | ||||
| 2023/24 | ||||
| 2022/23 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Keeble Gateway AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.6applications per place
- 0.8 km · North YorkshireRemains Good20222.1applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · North YorkshireGood20232.2applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 2.1 km · North Yorkshire20262.2applications per place 30%met the SATs standard
- 3.0 km · North YorkshireGood20231.9applications per place 71%met the SATs standard
- 3.7 km · North Yorkshire20263.2applications per place 92%met the SATs standard
- 4.2 km · North YorkshireGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place
- 4.9 km · North YorkshireGraded · no overall grade20252.8applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- 7.0 km · North YorkshireRemains Good20242.5applications per place 27%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 147192 · 815/2012
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 236 pupils · 204 on roll
- Free school meals
- 19.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 2 September 2019
- Address
- Inspiration Way, Sowerby, Thirsk, YO7 1TS
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources