Gomersal Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Cleckheaton, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.22 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Gomersal Primary School is a primary school in Cleckheaton, Kirklees for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 8 November 2023. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Gomersal Primary 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 | 2.22 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 2.22 miles away, the 47th longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance (middle 1.65 miles).
- The Reception last distance in 2026 was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2019, and it has swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026, 50 first-choice applications for 55 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 3% 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
- Oxford Road, Gomersal, Cleckheaton, BD19 4PX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 396 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 8 November 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders are ambitious for pupils in their care.”
- “Pupils enjoy playing with and alongside each other at playtimes and lunchtimes.”
- “They are positive about being members of the school community.”
To improve
- “However, some of the support that staff provide pupils with SEND is not precise enough to help them to be as successful as possible in their learning.”
- “However, the school’s evaluation of the impact of this support is sometimes not as precise as it needs to”
- “This means that gaps in phonics knowledge are not closed quickly enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 December 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) | 64% | 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: 50 first-preference applications, 55 offers in total, 50 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.
- Gomersal St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior, Infant and Early Years School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Birstall Primary Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Smithies Moor 1.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Littletown Junior Infant and Nursery School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Howard Park Community School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fieldhead Primary Academy 1.3 mi Good Last distance published