Shaw Cross Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Dewsbury, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.65 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Shaw Cross Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Dewsbury, Kirklees for ages 3–7 (community school). Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Shaw Cross 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 | 4.65 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
- Reception 2026's last place offered went to a child 4.65 miles away, 10th longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.65 miles).
- That 2026 distance was further than in 2025 and in 2019, and it has swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2023 to 2024.
- Reception 2026 drew 58 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Pupils eligible for free school meals make up 17%, against a middle figure of 28.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kirklees.
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
- Leeds Road, Shaw Cross, Shaw Cross Infant and Nursery School, Dewsbury, WF12 7HP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 223 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 12 May 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils at Shaw Cross Infant and Nursery School are well supported in their first stages of school.”
- “They demonstrate the school's vision for behaviour of 'working together, valuing and nurturing children'.”
- “Pupils develop their skills of turn-taking, sharing and listening to others well.”
To improve
- “Some pupils do not attend school as well as they could.”
- “Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and disadvantaged pupils miss larger chunks of their learning.”
- “This means they cannot benefit as well as they should from the school's offer.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 June 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 58 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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.
- Hanging Heaton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Bywell Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Lydgate Junior and Infant School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Mill Lane Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Orchard Primary Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Field Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Warwick Road Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eastborough Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published