Bishopthorpe Infant School
Bishopthorpe Infant School is a converter academy in York for boys and girls aged 5 to 7. It has 97 pupils and room for 170. About 5 in every 100 pupils come from a low-income family, far fewer than at most schools in England.
Sim Balk Lane, Bishopthorpe, York, YO23 2QQ01904 552399bishopthorpeinfantschool.co.ukMrs Kerry Davies headteacherAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet.
Results
No published results yet for this school.
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
York council has drawn an official catchment area for this school. You can see it on the map below; it covers about 10 square kilometres. Living inside it moves your child up the queue when there are more applicants than places. It doesn't guarantee a place: the council's admissions rules decide the order.
Set your home postcode at the top of the page to see whether you live inside it.
75 places were empty (44% of the total), so almost everyone who applies gets in. Pupil numbers have fallen by 35% since 2021/22, so places are getting easier to find.
In 2026 every child who applied got a place, so how far away you live didn't matter. That could change if the school gets more popular.
We measure in a straight line from the middle of your postcode to the school. The council measures its own way, and the cut-off changes every year. Use this as a rough guide, and read the council's admissions booklet before you apply.
How places were given out for September 2026. Every child who applied got a place (22 offers for 30 places).
| Entry | Places | Got a place | How far the last child lived | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Primary | 30 | 22 | – all offered | LA |
| 2025 Primary | 50 | 29 | – all offered | LA |
| 2024 Primary | 50 | 44 | – all offered | LA |
What a home inside the catchment costs
Every home sold inside the council's catchment area, of any type, from HM Land Registry records. If homes here cost more than the district average, that is the price people pay to live close enough to get in.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The most common needs among pupils getting extra support: language and communications needs (7), emotional and mental health (3).
How the mix of pupils has changed
| Census | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils on roll | 97 | 98 | 104 | 126 |
| Pupils from low-income familiesFree school meals | 5% | 9% | 9% | 10% |
| Pupils learning EnglishEnglish as an additional language | 5% | 3% | 3% | 2% |
| Pupils getting extra supportSEN support | – | 7% | 3% | 2% |
| Pupils with an EHC planEducation, health and care plans | – | 0% | 2% | 2% |
Attendance and behaviour
In 2024/25 pupils were in school 94.7% of the time. Across similar schools in England it was 94.8%.
Attendance year by year
| Measure | 2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22† | 2020/21† | 2018/19† | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions missedOverall absence | 5.3% | 3.8% | 3.8% | 4.7% | 1.5% | 3.3% | 5.2% |
| Missed with permissionAuthorised absence | 3.2% | 3.2% | 3.1% | 4.1% | 1.2% | 2.5% | – |
| Missed without permissionUnauthorised absence | 2.1% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.8% | – |
| Pupils missing a lot of schoolPersistent absence | 7.0% | 9.1% | 4.9% | 6.1% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 12.8% |
| SuspensionsSuspension rate | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | – | – | – | – |
| Permanent exclusionsPermanent exclusions | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – |
† These attendance figures are for Bishopthorpe Infant School, the school this one replaced in March 2022. Same building and the same children. It got a new registration number, usually because it joined an academy trust.
Staff and money
From the government's count of school staff in November 2025 and the school's published accounts.
Money
From the academy accounts return, year to August 2025. The per-pupil figures are compared with other primary schools in England that report their accounts the same way.
Reserves are the money left over at the end of the year, kept back for emergencies and big projects. Being in the red year after year is a warning sign. Very large reserves can mean money sitting in the bank instead of being spent on today's pupils. Academy figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and include a share of any money the trust holds centrally.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest primary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop of York's CofE Junior School, Bishopthorpe | Academy | 220 m | 160 | Good 2023 | 75 | Compare |
| Dringhouses Primary School | Council | 1.4 miles | 312 | Good 2022 | 77 | Compare |
| Naburn Church of England Primary School | Academy | 1.4 miles | 40 | Requires improvement 2023 | 0 | Compare |
| Woodthorpe Primary School | Academy | 1.5 miles | 450 | Outstanding 2024 | 83 | Compare |
| Knavesmire Primary School | Academy | 1.6 miles | 484 | Outstanding 2022 | 98 | Compare |
| St Oswald's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Church of England | 1.6 miles | 321 | Good 2024 | 69 | Compare |
| Copmanthorpe Primary School | Council | 1.6 miles | 273 | Good 2023 | 46 | Compare |
| Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy | Academy | 2.1 miles | 415 | Good 2024 | 62 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Bishopthorpe Infant School a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Bishopthorpe Infant School yet.
How many pupils does Bishopthorpe Infant School have?
97 pupils aged 5 to 7 were on the roll in January 2026. It has 170 places, so it is 57% full.
Is Bishopthorpe Infant School oversubscribed?
Probably not. 75 places were empty in 2024/25 (44% of the total), so most families who apply get a place.
What is attendance like at Bishopthorpe Infant School?
Pupils were in school 94.7% of the time in 2024/25. Similar schools in England managed 94.8%. 7% of pupils missed at least a tenth of the year.
How big are the classes at Bishopthorpe Infant School?
The average class had 24.3 pupils in January 2026. Across England it was 25.4. No class had more than 30 pupils.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Sim Balk Lane, Bishopthorpe, York, YO23 2QQ
- Telephone
- 01904 552399
- Website
- www.bishopthorpeinfantschool.co.uk
- Headteacher
- Mrs Kerry Davies
- Type of school
- Converter academy (Academy converter, academies)
- Phase
- Primary school, ages 5-7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Multi-academy trust
- Yorkshire Learning Trust (17 schools)
- Local authority
- York
- Ward
- Bishopthorpe
- Constituency
- York Outer
- Setting
- Larger rural: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 1 March 2022 (academy converter)
- URN
- 148823 · LAESTAB 8162386 · UKPRN 10089421
- Formerly
- Bishopthorpe Infant School
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Attendance: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25 full year.
- Pupil characteristics: DfE school census, January 2026.
- Staff: DfE school workforce census, November 2025.
- Class sizes: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026.
- Pupil premium: DfE allocations and conditions of grant, 2026 to 2027.
- Money: DfE financial benchmarking and insights tool, academy accounts return 2024/25.
- Admissions outcomes: York council's published allocation statistics (source), entry years 2024, 2025, 2026.
- Catchment area: York council open data (Open Government Licence), reprojected to WGS84.
- House prices: HM Land Registry price paid data, December 2023 to December 2025, placed by postcode.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.