Emley First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–10 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.35 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Emley First School is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 4–10 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 10 April 2024. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Emley First 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 | 3.35 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 last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 3.35 miles away, the 22nd longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance, this one included.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2019, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 23 first-choice applications for 25 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
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
- School Lane, Emley, Huddersfield, HD8 9RT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–10
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 137 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 10 April 2024
Strengths
- “Emley First School’s mission, ‘learning and growing together with kindness, confidence, and high aspirations’, sums up the school’s determination to provide an exceptional education for every pupil.”
- “Pupils rise to the school’s consistently high expectations.”
- “They are very well prepared, academically and socially for the next stage of learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 23 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 23 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.
- Flockton CofE (C) First School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kaye's Academy 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Scissett Church of England Academy 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Skelmanthorpe Academy 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Aidan's Church of England Academy 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Grange Moor Primary School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Denby Dale First and Nursery School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Kirkburton CofE (VA) First School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published