Report card · inspected Nov 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
This schoolOther primary schools in Calderdale
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Expected standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard | ||||
| Achievement | Expected standard | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Expected standard | ||||
| Early years | Expected standard | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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Inspection history
- 25 November 2025Report card · 7 Expected standard
- 22 June 2022Graded inspection: 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 entry22 applications · 3 places offered · 3 named it first
- 2026 7.3; Calderdale median median 1.9
- 2025 3.1; Calderdale median median 2.0
- 2024 4.9; Calderdale median median 2.0
- 2023 4.3; Calderdale median median 2.1
- 2022 4.3; Calderdale median median 2.1
- 2021 3.4; Calderdale median median 2.2
- 2020 4.9; Calderdale median median 2.3
- 2019 2.5; Calderdale median median 2.3
- 2018 2.3; Calderdale median median 2.2
- 2017 3.7; Calderdale median median 2.3; as the previous school
- 2016 2.7; Calderdale median median 2.3; as the previous school
- 2015 5.4; Calderdale median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2014 4.3; Calderdale median median 2.5; as the previous school
- This school
- Calderdale median
Dashed bars: as West Vale Primary School (URN 107573), 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 | 3 | 22 | 7.3 | 3 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 9 | 28 | 3.1 | 9 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 7 | 34 | 4.9 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 7 | 30 | 4.3 | 6 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2022 | 9 | 39 | 4.3 | 9 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 9 | 31 | 3.4 | 8 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2020 | 10 | 49 | 4.9 | 9 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2019 | 13 | 32 | 2.5 | 13 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 15 | 35 | 2.3 | 14 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2017 * | 16 | 59 | 3.7 | 16 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 26 | 69 | 2.7 | 18 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2015 * | 20 | 107 | 5.4 | 19 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2014 * | 26 | 111 | 4.3 | 18 | 0.69 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 82% · Writing 88% · Maths 88% → all three 82% 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 | 82% | 6% | 106 | 106 |
| 2023/24 | 75% | 10% | 106 | 106 |
| 2022/23 | 58% | 0% | 103 | 102 |
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
- West Vale AcademyThis schoolThis school20257.3applications per place 82%met the SATs standard
- 0.5 km · CalderdaleGood20241.9applications per place 33%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · CalderdaleGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 12%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · CalderdaleGood20231.6applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · Calderdale20261.8applications per place 86%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · CalderdaleOutstanding20232.9applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · CalderdaleGood20242.4applications per place 67%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · CalderdaleGood20231.4applications per place 32%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · CalderdaleGood20233.1applications per place 68%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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 145571 · 381/2016
- Capacity
- 182 pupils · 74 on roll
- Free school meals
- 44.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 March 2018
- Replaced
- West Vale Primary School (URN 107573)
- Address
- Stainland Road, West Vale, Halifax, HX4 8LS
- Local authority
- Calderdale
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources