Shade Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Todmorden, 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 🔒
Shade Primary School is a primary school in Todmorden, Calderdale for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 May 2023. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Shade 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, though places ran out in 2016, the other year with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 10 first-choice applications for 10 offers, with every first-choice family offered a place; 3 of the 22 applications (14%) came from outside Calderdale.
- In 2024/25, 72% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest Calderdale primary schools.
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
- Knowlwood Road, Shade, Todmorden, OL14 7PD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 178 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 May 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy to be part of the friendly community at Shade Primary School.”
- “They have a strong sense of belonging.”
- “Pupils feel safe and well cared for.”
To improve
- “However, leaders have not included vocabulary development in all subjects.”
- “As a result, pupils lack the precise vocabulary to explain their learning in these subjects.”
- “In some of the foundation subjects, such as history, teachers do not check on pupils’ learning as effectively as they do in early reading and mathematics.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 June 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) | 72% | 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: 10 first-preference applications, 10 offers in total, 10 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.
- Walsden St Peter's CE (VC) Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Todmorden CofE J, I & N School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Voluntary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Castle Hill Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Ferney Lee Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Colden Junior and Infant School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Hebden Royd CofE Primary School 4.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published