You can check your catchment area on our find a school page.
If you live in catchment for Ripon Grammar School
If you live in catchment for Ripon Grammar School and your child attends a Ripon primary school, you do not need to apply online. You will receive correspondence from us early in the summer term, before the end of year 5.
If you live in catchment for Ripon Grammar School and your child does not attend a Ripon primary school, you need to make an application to sit the entrance test.
If you live outside the catchment for Ripon Grammar School
If you live outside the catchment for Ripon Grammar School, and your child attends a Ripon primary school, you need to make an application to sit the entrance test.
If you live outside the catchment for Ripon Grammar School, and your child does not attend a Ripon primary school, you need to make an application to sit the entrance test.
If you move into the Ripon Grammar School catchment
If you move into the Ripon Grammar School catchment area at any point and you want your child to sit the entrance test, please contact the school admissions team.
Ripon primary schools
The primary schools in Ripon are:
- Bishop Monkton Church of England Primary School
- Burton Leonard Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
- Fountains Church of England Primary School
- Grewelthorpe Church of England Primary School
- Holy Trinity Church of England Junior School
- Kirkby Malzeard Church of England Primary School
- Markington Church of England Primary School
- Moorside Primary School and Nursery
- North Stainley Church of England Primary School
- Outwood Primary Academy Greystone
- Ripon Cathedral School
- Sharow Church of England Primary School
- St Wilfrid’s Catholic Primary School