Report card · inspected Nov 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
This schoolOther primary schools in Wakefield
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Strong standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Strong standard | ||||
| Achievement | Strong standard | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Strong standard | ||||
| Early years | Expected standard | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Strong standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
Inspection history
- 25 November 2025Report card · 6 Strong standard, 1 Expected standard
- 19 March 2025Ungraded inspection: Improved significantly
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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 entry41 applications · 25 places offered · 22 named it first
- 2026 1.6; Wakefield median median 2.3
- 2025 1.5; Wakefield median median 2.2
- 2024 2.2; Wakefield median median 2.4
- 2023 1.6; Wakefield median median 1.9
- 2022 1.5; Wakefield median median 1.8
- 2021 1.7; Wakefield median median 1.8
- 2020 1.4; Wakefield median median 1.9
- 2019 1.3; Wakefield median median 1.8
- 2018 1.3; Wakefield median median 1.9
- 2017 2.5; Wakefield median median 1.9
- 2016 1.3; Wakefield median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 1.1; Wakefield median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 1.3; Wakefield median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Wakefield median
Dashed bars: as Sitlington Middlestown Junior and Infant School (URN 108157), 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 | 25 | 41 | 1.6 | 22 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2025 | 30 | 46 | 1.5 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2024 | 20 | 43 | 2.2 | 20 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 19 | 31 | 1.6 | 18 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2022 | 22 | 32 | 1.5 | 19 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2021 | 17 | 28 | 1.7 | 16 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2020 | 25 | 35 | 1.4 | 23 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2019 | 24 | 32 | 1.3 | 22 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2018 | 29 | 39 | 1.3 | 29 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 17 | 42 | 2.5 | 17 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 24 | 31 | 1.3 | 18 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2015 * | 28 | 31 | 1.1 | 25 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2014 * | 22 | 28 | 1.3 | 22 | 1.00 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 95% · Writing 86% · Maths 95% → all three 86% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Wakefield median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 86% | 27% | 110 | 113 |
| 2023/24 | 80% | 25% | 109 | 109 |
| 2022/23 | 71% | 21% | 107 | 108 |
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
- Middlestown Primary AcademyThis schoolThis school20251.6applications per place 86%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · Wakefield20261.6applications per place 58%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · WakefieldRemains Good20234.1applications per place 93%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · KirkleesGraded · no overall grade20241.3applications per place 55%met the SATs standard
- 2.7 km · WakefieldSome aspects not as strong20243.2applications per place 79%met the SATs standard
- 2.9 km · KirkleesGood20242.6applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- 2.9 km · WakefieldRemains Good20222.9applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 3.0 km · WakefieldGood20233.6applications per place
- 3.0 km · WakefieldGood20222.2applications 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
- 143810 · 384/2069
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 217 on roll
- Free school meals
- 15.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 December 2016
- Replaced
- Sitlington Middlestown Junior and Infant School (URN 108157)
- Address
- Cross Road, Middlestown, Wakefield, WF4 4QE
- Local authority
- Wakefield
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources