Birkby Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
6.64 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Birkby Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 24 April 2025. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Birkby 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 | 6.64 mi |
| 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The 2026 Reception last distance offered was 6.64 miles, the 5th longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 1.65 miles.
- That 2026 figure was further from the school than in 2025 and 2019, with the biggest swing of all coming between 2025 and 2026.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 105 first-choice applications for 112 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, with 7 offers to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Ofsted's latest visit on 24 April 2025 found standards maintained, following an Outstanding grade on 20 November 2018.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Kirklees schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Blacker Road, Birkby, Huddersfield, HD1 5HQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 457 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 24 April 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils achieve well at Birkby Infant and Nursery School.”
- “Whenever pupils join, they are given a warm welcome and quickly assessed to see what they can and cannot do.”
- “Children quickly grasp the important English and mathematics skills that they need.”
To improve
- “The school’s outcomes in phonics in 2024 were below the national average.”
- “Where pupils joined in Year 1 or 2, they made rapid progress, but did not all achieve the expected standard, often due to being new to the English language.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 105 first-preference applications, 112 offers in total, 105 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 Kirklees.
- Brambles Primary Academy 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Birkby Junior School 0.4 mi Good
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Spring Grove Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Paddock Junior Infant and Nursery School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Fixby Junior and Infant School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ashbrow School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lindley Junior School 1.2 mi Good