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Bishopthorpe Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–7 · Academy
Sim Balk Lane, Bishopthorpe, York YO23 2QQ · bishopthorpeinfantschool.co.uk · 01904 552399
On the mapSearch near YO23 2QQ
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Feb 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · York Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 97
- 57% of 170 places
- Local authority
- York
- Free school meals
- 5.2%
- First language not English
- 5.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: York Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 22 families put the school first and 22 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 22 | 22 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 28 | 27 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 44 | 40 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 32 | 32 | 1 | 97% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 25 | 23 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 25 February 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Bishopthorpe Infant School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 25 Feb 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2012
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 121440), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jun 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 121440)
Mar 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 121440)
What parents said
95% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (21 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 95%
- Replies
- 21
- 21% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 52% who raised concerns
based on the 5% who had a child bullied