Website and telephone payments Sunday 19 May
Our website and telephone payment systems are unavailable between 9am and 2pm on Sunday 19 May. You will not be able to pay for any council services on our website or over the phone during this time.
Get advice on choosing a school, find a school near you on our interactive maps and learn about how catchment areas work and which catchment area you live in.
You can search the directory of educational establishments within North Yorkshire on the government website.
You may already have a school in mind, but remember that you need to list several preferences on your application form. Make sure you have read our advice about preferencing before you fill in the form.
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We have more advice about choosing a school for parents of children with SEND in our SEND local offer page.
You can use our interactive map to find out what catchment area you live in. Remember that you may not be in the catchment area for the school that is nearest to you in a straight line, or 'as the crow flies'.
You can either type your address in the search bar, or use the 'zoom' function and then click on the map to see catchment areas that apply. You can select primary or secondary catchments and locations in the map layers.
Map: all schools and catchment areas
Our maps are for reference only.
A catchment area is an area around a single school. The catchment school is allocated by the local authority from the geographical area your address is in. Your catchment school is determined by your home address, and not the primary school your child attends.
Children living in a school's catchment area fall into the third priority group of the oversubscription criteria. We use oversubscription criteria to make admission decisions for oversubscribed community and voluntary controlled schools. You can find out more about the oversubscription criteria in our school admission policies and statistics page.
Please note: other types of schools may have their own priorities for oversubscription criteria. Please check the school's admission policy published on their website.
If you look at our catchment area map, you might see that your home is in two or more catchment areas. Please contact the school admissions team if you need more information about your catchment area.