Blakehill Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Bradford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.666 miles
Published by Bradford Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Blakehill Primary School is a primary school in Bradford for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 July 2022. Bradford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Blakehill 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 | 0.666 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 0.666 miles away, the 21st shortest of 49 Bradford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 0.91 miles).
- For Reception, the 2026 last distance was about the same as in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 11 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 60 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 44 offers went to first-choice families and 16 first-choice families (27%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Bradford.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bradford schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Highfield Road, Idle, Bradford, BD10 8QN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Bradford
- Pupils on roll
- 421 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 July 2022
Strengths
- “Behaviour at Blakehill Primary School is exceptional.”
- “Staff ensure that pupils follow the three behaviour rules: ‘be ready, be respectful, be safe’.”
- “Pupils are highly engaged during lessons.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, leaders do not design assessment tasks well consistently.”
- “When this happens, teachers cannot identify and address pupils’ gaps precisely enough.”
- “However, some activities that children engage in are not planned or purposeful.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 October 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) | 75% | 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: 60 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 44 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 Bradford.
- Thorpe Primary 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Swain House Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Parkland 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Francis Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Brendan's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Cavendish Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained
- Grove House Academy 0.8 mi Good