St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
near Bilbrough, YO23 3PD · York local authority
What stands out about St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 72% of England’s primary schools
- 70% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8 points above England’s schools
- 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, October 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Outside any built-up area: listed with Bilbrough, the nearest town
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (14 of 14)
- Homes in its postcode sector (YO23 3) sold for a median £399,975; Bilbrough’s is £0
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 70%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 72% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · York avg 63%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 108, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (3), 2022 (2), 2023 (2), 2024 (2). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. York council sets the admissions rules. Apply through York council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Bilbrough and York, side by side
2023–2025All 47 graded primaries in York. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Bilbrough’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knavesmire Primary School | A+ | 8% | 86% |
| Ralph Butterfield Primary School | A+ | 7% | 84% |
| Lord Deramore's Primary School | A+ | 10% | 83% |
| Hempland Primary School | A | 8% | 81% |
| Dringhouses Primary School | A | 10% | 76% |
| Clifton With Rawcliffe Primary School | A | 14% | 76% |
| St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy | A− | 10% | 75% |
| Wigginton Primary School | A− | 5% | 74% |
| Rufforth Primary School | A− | 9% | 74% |
| Scarcroft Primary School | A− | 16% | 73% |
| Dunnington Church of England Primary School | A− | 4% | 73% |
| Elvington Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | A− | 4% | 72% |
| St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | B+ | 8% | 70% |
| St Lawrence's Church of England Primary School | B+ | 63% | 70% |
| Skelton Primary School | B+ | 25% | 70% |
| Poppleton Ousebank Primary School | B+ | 7% | 68% |
| Badger Hill Primary Academy | B+ | 18% | 68% |
| St Oswald's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | B | 14% | 67% |
| Park Grove Primary Academy | B | 16% | 67% |
| Headlands Primary School | B | 5% | 66% |
| Osbaldwick Primary Academy | B | 27% | 66% |
| Acomb Primary School | B | 16% | 65% |
| Woodthorpe Primary School | B | 19% | 65% |
| Archbishop of York's CofE Junior School, Bishopthorpe | B | 9% | 65% |
| St George's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy | B | 24% | 65% |
| St Paul's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | B− | 14% | 64% |
| Carr Junior School | B− | 26% | 64% |
| Stockton-on-the-Forest Primary School | B− | 8% | 63% |
| Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy | B− | 4% | 63% |
| Fishergate Primary School | B− | 21% | 62% |
| Robert Wilkinson Primary Academy | B− | 10% | 62% |
| New Earswick Primary School | B− | 54% | 62% |
| Poppleton Road Primary School | B− | 28% | 62% |
| Huntington Primary Academy | C+ | 14% | 58% |
| Wheldrake with Thorganby Church of England Primary School | C+ | 7% | 58% |
| Copmanthorpe Primary School | C | 6% | 57% |
| Tang Hall Primary Academy | C | 61% | 54% |
| Yearsley Grove Primary School | C− | 25% | 50% |
| Haxby Road Primary Academy | C− | 28% | 49% |
| Lakeside Primary Academy | C− | 20% | 49% |
| Heworth Church of England Primary School | C− | 16% | 48% |
| Hob Moor Community Primary Academy | D | 51% | 44% |
| Burton Green Primary School | D | 23% | 43% |
| St Aelred's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic Voluntary Academy | D | 35% | 40% |
| Clifton Green Primary School | D | 32% | 39% |
| Westfield Primary Community School | D− | 38% | 36% |
| Saint Barnabas Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | D− | 33% | 28% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025104 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, October 2023.
Living near St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in YO23 3, the school’s postcode sector
Bilbrough property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Location
Directions ↗near Bilbrough, YO23 3PD
Primary schools near St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
The nearest state schools of the same phase, as the crow flies. Catchments and admissions rules decide which one a child gets.
St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School: common questions
Is St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School a good school?
By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 72% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 70% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, October 2023.
How hard is it to get into St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School?
For September 2026, 14 families put St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 15 places were offered in all.
What is St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (October 2023).
How much do houses cost near St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, YO23 3, sold for a median £399,975 over the 36 months to August 2026 (226 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Bilbrough’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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