Graded inspection · Sep 2022 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| 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 entry29 applications · 13 places offered · 13 named it first
- 2026 2.2; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2025 4.7; Kirklees median median 2.3
- 2024 3.5; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2023 3.1; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2022 4.0; Kirklees median median 2.5
- 2021 4.8; Kirklees median median 2.5
- 2020 7.3; Kirklees median median 2.5
- 2019 3.6; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2018 3.8; Kirklees median median 2.4
- 2017 6.0; Kirklees median median 2.2
- 2016 2.9; Kirklees median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2015 2.9; Kirklees median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 3.7; Kirklees median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Kirklees median
Dashed bars: as Birdsedge First School (URN 107649), 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 | 13 | 29 | 2.2 | 13 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 6 | 28 | 4.7 | 5 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2024 | 11 | 38 | 3.5 | 9 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2023 | 13 | 40 | 3.1 | 11 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2022 | 4 | 16 | 4.0 | 4 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 5 | 24 | 4.8 | 5 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 3 | 22 | 7.3 | 4 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2019 | 8 | 29 | 3.6 | 8 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 11 | 42 | 3.8 | 11 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 7 | 42 | 6.0 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 15 | 44 | 2.9 | 14 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2015 * | 14 | 40 | 2.9 | 12 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2014 * | 15 | 56 | 3.7 | 13 | 0.87 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Birdsedge First SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20222.2applications per place
- 1.3 km · KirkleesGraded · no overall grade20244.3applications per place
- 2.0 km · KirkleesGood20242.2applications per place
- 2.4 km · Kirklees20262.5applications per place
- 3.3 km · KirkleesGood20232.5applications per place
- 3.3 km · KirkleesGood20232.3applications per place
- 3.8 km · KirkleesRemains Good2023
- 3.9 km · KirkleesGraded · no overall grade20252.6applications per place
- 4.4 km · KirkleesStandards maintained20252.5applications 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
- 143790 · 382/2078
- Capacity
- 90 pupils · 59 on roll
- Free school meals
- 25.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 December 2016
- Replaced
- Birdsedge First School (URN 107649)
- Address
- Birdsedge First School, Penistone Road, Birdsedge, Huddersfield, HD8 8XR
- Local authority
- Kirklees
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources