Ripponden Junior and Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Sowerby 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 🔒
Ripponden Junior and Infant School is a primary school in Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Ripponden Junior and Infant 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
- In 2024/25, 64% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, but places ran out in 1 of the 2 earlier years with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026, 29 first-choice applications for 29 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; the admission number for Reception 2027 is 30 places.
- There are 34.2 pupils per teacher and 10.5% are eligible for free school meals; the middle figures across the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale are 22.7 and 19.7%.
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
- Halifax Road, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 4AH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 171 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 34.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Ripponden Junior and Infant School are proud of their school.”
- “They say that they feel happy and safe here.”
- “Pupils enjoy being part of the school ‘family’.”
To improve
- “However, this precision in planning is not consistent in all classes or subjects.”
- “In other subjects, there is more to do to identify the important knowledge that leaders want pupils to remember.”
- “This means that, in these subjects, teachers are less clear about what they should teach and when they should teach it.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 May 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) | 64% | 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: 29 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Barkisland CofE VA Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE (VC) J and I School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Primary School In Rishworth 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Triangle CofE VC Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Trinity Academy St Peter's 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Voluntary Academy 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bowling Green Academy 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Norland CE School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published