Graded inspection · Jan 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Kirklees
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 28 January 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 5 February 2020Ungraded inspection: School remains 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 entry49 applications · 19 places offered · 19 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.6; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2025 2.3; Kirklees median median 2.3
- 2024 2.7; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2023 2.3; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2022 2.9; Kirklees median median 2.5
- 2021 1.9; Kirklees median median 2.5
- 2020 2.0; Kirklees median median 2.5
- 2019 2.8; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2018 2.0; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2017 2.2; Kirklees median median 2.2
- 2016 1.8; Kirklees median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2015 2.0; Kirklees median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 1.8; Kirklees median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Kirklees median
Dashed bars: as St Aidan's Church of England Voluntary Aided First School (URN 107744), 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 | 19 | 49 | 2.6 | 19 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 24 | 55 | 2.3 | 24 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 21 | 56 | 2.7 | 20 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2023 | 19 | 43 | 2.3 | 19 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 17 | 50 | 2.9 | 16 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2021 | 27 | 50 | 1.9 | 27 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 27 | 55 | 2.0 | 26 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2019 | 30 | 83 | 2.8 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2018 | 30 | 61 | 2.0 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2017 | 30 | 66 | 2.2 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2016 * | 28 | 50 | 1.8 | 27 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2015 * | 27 | 53 | 2.0 | 25 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2014 * | 23 | 42 | 1.8 | 22 | 0.96 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Aidan's Church of England AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.6applications per place
- 0.5 km · KirkleesStandards maintained20252.5applications per place
- 1.1 km · KirkleesGood20232.3applications per place
- 1.7 km · KirkleesGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place
- 2.6 km · KirkleesGraded · no overall grade20244.3applications per place
- 2.7 km · Kirklees20262.1applications per place
- 3.2 km · Kirklees20262.5applications per place
- 3.2 km · KirkleesGood20232.5applications per place
- 3.3 km · KirkleesOutstanding20242.4applications per place
- 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
- 143228 · 382/3328
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 180 pupils · 137 on roll
- Free school meals
- 5.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 March 2017
- Replaced
- St Aidan's Church of England Voluntary Aided First School (URN 107744)
- Address
- Smithy Close, Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield, HD8 9DQ
- Local authority
- Kirklees
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources