Graded inspection · Dec 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 353 | 51.8 | 59% | 77% | – |
| 2024/25 | 356 | 51.3 | 60% | 78% | – |
| 2023/24 | 357 | 52.1 | 61% | 80% | +0.56 |
| 2022/23 | 359 | 50.7 | 55% | 75% | +0.57 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Shelley College, A Share AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade202451.8Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · KirkleesStandards maintained2025
- 3.3 km · Kirklees2026
- 6.6 km · KirkleesStandards maintained20251.8applications per place 43.3Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · BarnsleyRemains Good20231.5applications per place 51.4Attainment 8
- 7.1 km · KirkleesOutstanding20231.8applications per place 56.2Attainment 8
- 7.8 km · BarnsleyGood20231.6applications per place 50.7Attainment 8
- 8.0 km · KirkleesRemains Good20232.8applications per place 54.8Attainment 8
- 8.2 km · KirkleesGood20231.4applications per place 45.1Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 137352 · 382/4049
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,319 pupils · 1,274 on roll
- Free school meals
- 13.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2011
- Replaced
- Shelley College - A Specialist Centre for Science (URN 107771)
- Address
- Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Huddersfield, HD8 8NL
- Local authority
- Kirklees
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources