Marsden Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.58 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Marsden Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 5 June 2024. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Marsden 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 | 4.58 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 2026, the last child offered a place lived 4.58 miles away, the 12th longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance.
- That Reception 2026 distance was about the same as in 2025 and 2019, though the distance swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 26 first-choice applications for 27 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- The school has 14.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.7 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
- Brougham Road, Marsden, Huddersfield, HD7 6BN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 95 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 5 June 2024
Strengths
- “Marsden Infant and Nursery School is warm and welcoming.”
- “Pupils arrive in the morning with smiles on their faces.”
- “They are kind, respectful and tolerant towards each other.”
To improve
- “The school’s ambitions for the pupils are not fully realised.”
- “Pupils, because the curriculum is not well sequenced and delivered, do not know and remember enough of the knowledge they need to succeed.”
- “In some subjects, the key knowledge and key vocabulary that pupils should learn are not outlined in the school’s planning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 26 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 26 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.
- Marsden Junior School 0.1 mi Good
- Slaithwaite Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Nields Academy 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wilberlee Junior and Infant School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Meltham Moor Primary School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Helme Church of England Academy 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Linthwaite Clough Primary School 3.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Clough Head Junior and Infant School 3.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published