Keresforth Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Barnsley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.360 miles
Published by Barnsley Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Keresforth Primary School is a primary school in Barnsley for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 18 October 2022. Barnsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Keresforth Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.360 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.360 miles away, the 5th shortest of 20 Barnsley primary schools with a published last distance, and further than in 2025.
- Reception 2026 drew 37 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families (22%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Barnsley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Keresforth Road, Dodworth, Barnsley, S75 3NU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Barnsley
- Pupils on roll
- 224 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 18 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe at this friendly and inclusive school.”
- “The school motto of ‘kindness, progress, success’ threads through every aspect of the school.”
- “Pupils are well looked after by caring adults who know them and their families well.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, these small steps in knowledge have not been identified.”
- “Teachers have less clarity about what pupils need to know and remember.”
- “This leads to gaps in pupils’ knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 December 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 73% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 37 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Barnsley.
- Dodworth St John the Baptist CofE Primary Academy 0.5 mi Requires improvement
- Joseph Locke Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good
- Shawlands Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good
- Holy Rood Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Barnsley 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Gawber Primary School 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Summer Lane Primary 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Worsbrough Common Primary School 1.6 mi Good