Holmfirth Junior Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Holmfirth, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.97 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Holmfirth Junior Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Holmfirth, Kirklees for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 15 June 2022. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Holmfirth 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 | 0.97 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 0.97 miles away, the 30th shortest 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 in 2019, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 8 years.
- Reception 2026 had 14 first-choice applications for 15 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 58% 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
- Cartworth Road, Holmfirth, HD9 2RG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 191 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 15 June 2022
Strengths
- “Holmfirth Junior Infant and Nursery is a caring school that is very well regarded by the community.”
- “Staff have high expectations of all pupils.”
- “Pupils say that they are proud of their school and that they enjoy attending.”
To improve
- “However, this is not the case for all pupils.”
- “For pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), the curriculum does not identify the crucial knowledge they need to learn.”
- “However, the presentation of some pupils’ work is not good enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 October 2022 (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) | 58% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 14 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.
- Upperthong Junior and Infant School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Scholes (Holmfirth) Junior & Infant School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- New Mill Infant School 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- New Mill Junior School 1.2 mi Outstanding
- Netherthong Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Hinchliffe Mill Junior and Infant School 1.3 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Hade Edge Junior, Infant and Nursery School 1.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Hepworth Junior and Infant School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published