Graded inspection · Jul 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Calderdale
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 | Good | |||
| Early years 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 entry20 applications · 11 places offered · 11 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.8; Calderdale median median 1.9
- 2025 1.5; Calderdale median median 2.0
- 2024 1.1; Calderdale median median 2.0
- 2023 1.6; Calderdale median median 2.1
- 2022 1.5; Calderdale median median 2.1
- 2021 0.9; Calderdale median median 2.2
- 2020 1.7; Calderdale median median 2.3
- 2019 1.4; Calderdale median median 2.3
- 2018 2.1; Calderdale median median 2.2
- 2017 1.3; Calderdale median median 2.3
- 2016 1.4; Calderdale median median 2.3
- 2015 1.6; Calderdale median median 2.5
- 2014 1.9; Calderdale median median 2.5; as the previous school
- This school
- Calderdale median
Dashed bars: as St Malachy's Catholic Primary School (URN 107545), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 11 | 20 | 1.8 | 11 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 12 | 18 | 1.5 | 12 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 19 | 20 | 1.1 | 16 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2023 | 11 | 17 | 1.6 | 11 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 13 | 20 | 1.5 | 11 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2021 | 20 | 17 | 0.9 | 13 | 0.65 |
| Sep 2020 | 13 | 22 | 1.7 | 9 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2019 | 10 | 14 | 1.4 | 7 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2018 | 13 | 27 | 2.1 | 13 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 27 | 36 | 1.3 | 20 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2016 | 26 | 36 | 1.4 | 23 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2015 | 26 | 42 | 1.6 | 21 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 57 | 1.9 | 34 | 1.13 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 68% · Writing 63% · Maths 58% → all three 58% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Calderdale median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 58% | 11% | 102 | 99 |
| 2023/24 | 14% | 0% | 98 | 98 |
| 2022/23 | 20% | 0% | 99 | 96 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Malachy's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 58%met the SATs standard
- 0.1 km · CalderdaleGood20221.9applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · CalderdaleGood20232.3applications per place 55%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · CalderdaleStandards maintained20241.1applications per place 42%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · CalderdaleRemains Good20221.8applications per place 85%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · CalderdaleRemains Good20222.7applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · Calderdale20261.2applications per place 61%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · CalderdaleStandards maintained20251.6applications per place 67%met the SATs standard
- 1.7 km · CalderdaleRemains Good20231.6applications per place 59%met the SATs standard
- 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
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 141480 · 381/3306
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 172 on roll
- Free school meals
- 55.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 October 2014
- Replaced
- St Malachy's Catholic Primary School (URN 107545)
- Address
- Furness Place, Illingworth, Halifax, HX2 8JY
- Local authority
- Calderdale
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources