Withinfields Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Halifax, Calderdale
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Calderdale Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Withinfields Primary School is a primary school in Halifax, Calderdale for ages 3–11 (community school). Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Withinfields 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 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 63 of the 77 other Calderdale primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out for Reception in 2015 and 2016, when a last distance was published, before every applicant was offered a place in 2026.
- There are 17 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 24.8 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
- 59% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (2024/25; England 62%), 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Calderdale schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Withinfields, Southowram, Halifax, HX3 9QJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 338 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 9 December 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this school.”
- “They like to learn new things and are proud of the work they produce.”
- “The school’s friendly and welcoming ethos enables new pupils to settle in quickly.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, pupils sometimes struggle to remember prior learning.”
- “Leaders recognise, and are addressing, the need to support older pupils who have not fully secured some of this important knowledge.”
- “However, at times, leaders lack clarity about how they know if their actions to improve the school are working.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 February 2026 (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) | 59% | 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: 49 first-preference applications, 51 offers in total, 49 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 Calderdale.
- Siddal Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Salterhebble Junior and Infant School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Trinity Academy St Chad's 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- All Saints' CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holy Trinity Primary School, A Church of England Academy 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy, Brighouse 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published