Low Moor CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Bradford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Bradford Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Low Moor CofE Primary School is a primary school in Bradford for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 31 October 2023. Bradford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Low Moor CofE 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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 2024/25, 61% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), above the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Bradford that have results.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, after places ran out in all 7 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 54 first-choice applications for 59 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 17.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 29.7% across 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
- Park House Road, Low Moor, Bradford, BD12 0NN
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Bradford
- Pupils on roll
- 395 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 31 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils describe their school as peaceful, happy and safe.”
- “Pupils’ attitudes to learning are universally positive.”
- “They are enthusiastic to share what they are learning in class.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects the school has not developed effective ways to help pupils to remember this new knowledge over time.”
- “However, governors do not challenge leaders on how they evaluate standards in the school consistently well.”
- “This means that leaders’ evaluation of some aspects of the school, including the curriculum, lacks precision.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 December 2023 (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: 54 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 54 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.
- Hill Top CofE Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Winefride's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Paul's CofE Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Matthew's CofE Primary School and Nursery 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Woodlands Church of England Primary Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodside Academy 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Worthinghead Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Wibsey Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published