Central Street Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Hebden Bridge, 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 🔒
Central Street Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Hebden Bridge, Calderdale for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 16 November 2022. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Central Street Infant and Nursery 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 63 of the 77 other Calderdale primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For 2026 Reception entry: 12 first-choice applications for 12 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- There were 53 pupils on roll in January 2026, with 14.7 pupils per teacher against a middle figure of 21.4 across 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
- Central Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 6HB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 53 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 16 November 2022
Strengths
- “There is a strong sense of community in this school.”
- “Pupils experience an ethos of care, kindness and calm.”
- “Pupils trust the adults in the school and know that they are there to help them.”
To improve
- “Subject leaders are less clear about how children’s experiences in the early years support them in their future learning.”
- “Children in the early years do not experience a curriculum which prepares them well enough for the next stage of their education.”
- “However, the curriculum in other areas of learning is not clearly enough defined.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 12 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 12 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.
- Riverside Junior School 0.1 mi Standards maintained
- Stubbings Infant School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hebden Royd CofE Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Heptonstall Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Old Town Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Burnley Road Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Scout Road Academy 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Colden Junior and Infant School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published