Birkwood Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Barnsley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.834 miles
Published by Barnsley Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Birkwood Primary School is a primary school in Barnsley for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 10 December 2024. Barnsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Birkwood 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 | 2.834 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 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 2.834 miles from the school, the 2nd longest of 20 Barnsley primary schools with a published last distance.
- The Reception 2026 last distance was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance, and further from the school than in 2025 and in 2021.
- Reception 2026 had 61 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 59 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Barnsley.
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
- Darfield Road, Cudworth, Barnsley, S72 8HG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Barnsley
- Pupils on roll
- 432 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 10 December 2024
Strengths
- “The school wants to give pupils the very best opportunities.”
- “Pupils strive to live according to the school’s values of effort, kindness and respect.”
- “Pupils can be themselves and let their personalities shine through.”
To improve
- “However, in some areas of the curriculum in early years the school has not clearly identified the important information that children should know.”
- “This makes it difficult for teachers to emphasise this information when designing learning activities.”
- “This hinders children in building knowledge securely in these areas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 January 2025 (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) | 61% | 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: 61 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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.
- Churchfield Primary School 0.6 mi Good
- Milefield Primary School 1.0 mi Good
- Cherry Dale Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ladywood Primary School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Outwood Primary Academy Littleworth Grange 1.6 mi School remains Good
- Lift St Helen's 1.6 mi Good
- Lift Shafton 1.6 mi Improved significantly
- Carlton Primary Academy 1.9 mi Good