Gunnerside Methodist Junior School

Ofsted judged Gunnerside Methodist Junior School's overall effectiveness as Good at its inspection in December 2012 (last graded inspection), and an ungraded inspection in March 2023 confirmed it, on Ofsted's own scale.

Gunnerside Methodist Junior School has 31 pupils on roll.

Gunnerside Methodist Junior School admits pupils aged 7 to 11.

Gunnerside Methodist Junior School is located in Richmond, DL11 6LE, North Yorkshire.

Gunnerside Methodist Junior School is a state school. In England you apply through the council where you live, using its common application form, even if the school is in another council area. The national closing date for primary places is 15 January.

Yes — Gunnerside Methodist Junior School has a religious character of Methodist. Faith criteria may apply to admissions; check the school's oversubscription policy for details.

When Gunnerside Methodist Junior School has more applications than places for 2027-28, they are offered in a published order of priority: 1. Looked after and previously looked after children — Looked after children, all previously looked after children, and children the admissions authority judges were in state care outside England and left it through adoption. Previously looked after children are those who were looked after and stopped being so because they were adopted (including under the Adoption Act 1976 or the Adoption and Children Act 2002) or became subject to a child arrangement order or special guardianship order; child arrangement orders took the place of residence orders, and a residence order in force before 22 April 2014 counts as a child arrangement order. This covers every looked-after child, including those in another local authority's care or given accommodation by a local authority under its social services function when the application is made. For previously looked after children, the application must be backed by a copy of the relevant documents. State care outside England means being accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation or another care provider whose sole purpose is to benefit society; 2. Special social or medical reasons — Children the council considers have special social or medical reasons for admission. The council considers applications on social or medical grounds only with a professional recommendation backing them from a doctor, social worker or other appropriate professional. The supporting evidence should give the specific social or medical reason(s) why this school is the only one that can meet the child's needs, and the difficulties attending another school would cause. All applications under priority group 2 are considered by panels of professionally qualified people; 3. Lives in the school’s normal (catchment) area — Children living within the normal area of the school. Refer to tie break, and 2 further criteria. The school offers 7 places at this entry point. Tie-break: If there are not enough places for all the children in one of these priority groups, the council will give priority first to those with a sibling at the school in September 2027, who live the nearest to the school (in all cases sibling refers to brother or sister, half brother or sister, adopted brother or sister, step brother or sister, or the child of the parent/carer’s partner who live permanently at the same address where the child for whom the school place is sought is living in the same family unit) and then to those living nearest the school. All distance measurements are based on the nearest route which is recognised by North Yorkshire Council’s electronic mapping system from a child’s home address to school. The measurement is made from a fixed point within the dwelling, as identified by ordnance survey, to the nearest school entrance identified on the system using footpaths and roads. The routes measured to determine the allocation of school places will be those recognised by the electronic mapping system used by the school admissions team. If the distance tie-break is not sufficient to distinguish between applicants in a particular priority group a random allocation will be used as set out in this document. North Yorkshire measures distance by the nearest ROUTE its electronic mapping system recognises — along footpaths and roads from a fixed point in the home to the nearest school entrance — not in a straight line, which is what most councils use.

According to the DfE School Census 2025-26, 93.5% of pupils at Gunnerside Methodist Junior School are recorded as White British. The full ethnic breakdown across all groups is available on the Pupils tab.