Wood Bank School
Community special school · Ages 4–11 · Halifax, Calderdale
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Calderdale Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wood Bank School is a special school in Halifax, Calderdale for ages 4–11. Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 April 2024. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Wood Bank 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 | Not published |
| 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
- Calderdale Council published no last distance for Reception 2026.
- 54.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals.
- The school has 10.3 pupils per teacher, with 142 pupils on roll.
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
- Dene View, Luddenden, Halifax, HX2 6PB
- Type
- Community special school
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 142 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 54.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 10.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 April 2024
Strengths
- “The school’s motto, ‘from strong roots we grow and blossom’, is evident throughout the school.”
- “The school has developed an ambitious curriculum that meets pupils’ individual needs well.”
- “There are positive relationships between staff and pupils.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, in the more formal curriculum pathway ‘explore’, the school has not identified the most essential knowledge, concepts and vocabulary that pupils will learn and remember.”
- “In these subjects, some pupils are capable of doing more-demanding work.”
- “However, the books that pupils learn to read are, sometimes, not well matched to pupils’ reading ability.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 June 2024 (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) | 0% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Calderdale.
- Brearley Hall School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- The Calder Learning Trust 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Broadwood School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Compass Community School Willow Park 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- The Halifax Academy 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Beacon Lights Schools 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- The Whitley AP Academy 3.0 mi School remains Good
- The Gleddings School 3.2 mi No Ofsted grade