Shepley First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–10 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.27 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shepley First School is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 4–10 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 16 April 2024. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Shepley 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 | 3.27 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 3.27 miles from the school, the 24th longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance.
- That 2026 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2019, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 28 first-choice applications for 29 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family 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
- Firth Street, Shepley, Huddersfield, HD8 8DD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–10
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 168 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 16 April 2024
Strengths
- “Shepley First School is at the heart of the local community.”
- “There is a real sense of belonging and togetherness from the pupils, staff, parents and the governing body.”
- “The school wants the very best for every pupil.”
To improve
- “In these subjects, leaders do not have a secure understanding of how well pupils are learning.”
- “They do not have a consistent understanding of how, as leaders, they can effectively support staff to deliver high-quality lessons.”
- “Leaders’ monitoring of these curriculum developments is not regular enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 28 first-preference applications, 29 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.
- Shelley First School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Cumberworth CofE First School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Birdsedge First School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Thurstonland Endowed Voluntary Controlled First School 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kirkburton CofE (VA) First School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- New Mill Junior School 2.3 mi Outstanding
- Denby Dale First and Nursery School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Aidan's Church of England Academy 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published