Paddock Junior Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 2–11 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.48 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Paddock Junior Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 2–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 9 October 2024. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Paddock Junior 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 | 2.48 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
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2.48 miles from the school, the 38th longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance.
- That 2026 Reception distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2019, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 8 years.
- Reception 2026 had 28 first-choice applications for 36 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 8 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 52% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%).
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
- Heaton Road, Paddock, Huddersfield, HD1 4JJ
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 327 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 9 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending Paddock Junior, Infant and Nursery School.”
- “They value the positive relationships that they have with staff.”
- “Pupils are supportive of one another and behave well in classrooms and around the school.”
To improve
- “However, it does not use assessment information carefully enough in subjects other than English and mathematics.”
- “This means that some leaders do not know how well pupils are learning in their subject.”
- “Pupils’ attendance was below the national average last year.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 November 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) | 52% | 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: 28 first-preference applications, 36 offers in total, 28 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.
- Luck Lane, A Share Primary Academy 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Reinwood Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Reinwood Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Oak CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Spring Grove Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mount Pleasant Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Crow Lane Primary and Foundation Stage School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brambles Primary Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published