Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in KirkleesSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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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 hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry286 applications · 166 places offered · 117 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.7; Kirklees median median 2.1
- 2025 1.6; Kirklees median median 2.0
- 2024 1.8; Kirklees median median 2.2
- 2023 1.5; Kirklees median median 2.0
- 2022 1.7; Kirklees median median 2.1
- 2021 1.5; Kirklees median median 2.1
- 2020 1.6; Kirklees median median 1.9
- 2019 1.9; Kirklees median median 1.9
- 2018 2.3; Kirklees median median 1.9
- 2017 2.2; Kirklees median median 1.8
- 2016 1.9; Kirklees median median 1.7
- 2015 1.8; Kirklees median median 1.8
- 2014 2.2; Kirklees median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Kirklees median
Dashed bars: as St John Fisher Catholic High School (URN 107783), the previous school.
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 166 | 286 | 1.7 | 117 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2025 | 184 | 289 | 1.6 | 113 | 0.61 |
| Sep 2024 | 181 | 320 | 1.8 | 121 | 0.67 |
| Sep 2023 | 189 | 288 | 1.5 | 123 | 0.65 |
| Sep 2022 | 194 | 328 | 1.7 | 125 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2021 | 197 | 298 | 1.5 | 110 | 0.56 |
| Sep 2020 | 197 | 309 | 1.6 | 126 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2019 | 195 | 376 | 1.9 | 156 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2018 | 195 | 457 | 2.3 | 236 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2017 | 193 | 417 | 2.2 | 240 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2016 | 194 | 377 | 1.9 | 192 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2015 | 192 | 351 | 1.8 | 195 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2014 * | 196 | 429 | 2.2 | 260 | 1.33 |
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.) | 184 | 34.9 | 28% | 42% | – |
| 2024/25 | 174 | 34.8 | 25% | 46% | – |
| 2023/24 | 187 | 31.4 | 17% | 36% | −0.99 |
| 2022/23 | 192 | 34.8 | 28% | 48% | −0.79 |
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
- St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 34.9Attainment 8
- 0.3 km · Kirklees20261.8applications per place 42.1Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · KirkleesGood20222.1applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Kirklees20262.8applications per place 78.9Attainment 8 Selective
- 3.0 km · KirkleesRemains Good20241.8applications per place 43.4Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · KirkleesGraded · no overall grade20243.5applications per place 43.5Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · KirkleesGood20232.8applications per place 45.1Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · Kirklees20262.9applications per place 36.3Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · KirkleesSome aspects not as strong20242.9applications per place 43.5Attainment 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
- 141470 · 382/4800
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,069 pupils · 992 on roll
- Free school meals
- 45.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 October 2014
- Replaced
- St John Fisher Catholic High School (URN 107783)
- Address
- Oxford Road, Dewsbury, WF13 4LL
- Local authority
- Kirklees
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources