Low Ash Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Shipley, Bradford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.417 miles
Published by Bradford Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Low Ash Primary School is a primary school in Shipley, Bradford for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 22 January 2025. Bradford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Low Ash 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 | 0.417 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
- In Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.417 miles away, 11th shortest of 49 Bradford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- This distance has swung sharply between some years; the 2026 Reception figure was nearer the school than in 2025, the biggest move, and about the same as in 2015.
- For Reception 2026 there were 80 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 57 offers went to first-choice families and 23 first-choice families (29%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd 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
- Wrose Road, Wrose, Shipley, BD18 1AA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bradford
- Pupils on roll
- 478 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 22 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe in this caring school.”
- “Relationships across the school are warm and respectful, reflecting the school’s motto that pupils ‘learn, achieve, persevere and succeed’.”
- “As one pupil said ‘Everyone is welcome here, no matter what our differences are we all care for each other.”
To improve
- “However, this vision is not being fully realised for all pupils, including some of those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
- “However, for pupils at the early stage of writing, the work they are given is not always adapted well to meet their needs.”
- “However, the written tasks pupils at an early stage of writing undertake do not always show what pupils can achieve, as for some the curriculum lacks ambition.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 March 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) | 70% | 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: 80 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 57 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.
- High Crags Primary Leadership Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Christ Church Church of England Academy 0.5 mi Good
- Frizinghall Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.7 mi Standards maintained
- Shipley CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Poplars Farm Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Blakehill Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Swain House Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published