Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Batley, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.86 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Batley, Kirklees for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 October 2023. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Park Road 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 | 0.86 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 Reception 2026 last distance offered, 0.86 miles, was the 26th shortest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle 1.65 miles).
- That Reception 2026 distance was about the same as in 2025 and nearer than in 2019, with the sharpest swing from 2022 to 2023.
- Reception 2026 drew 21 first-choice applications for 23 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Park Road, Batley, WF17 5LP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 196 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this happy and caring school.”
- “They are friendly, polite and keen to talk about what they like about their school.”
- “They talk about the school being respectful.”
To improve
- “However, there is still work to do in developing some subjects.”
- “Leaders are aware that there needs to be greater clarity in identifying precisely what pupils will know.”
- “However, there are still minor inconsistencies in their”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 November 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) | 70% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 21 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.
- Batley Parish CofE Primary Academy 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Field Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hyrstmount Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Purlwell Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mill Lane Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Warwick Road Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Carlinghow Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published