Howard Park Community School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Cleckheaton, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.64 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Howard Park Community School is a primary school in Cleckheaton, Kirklees for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 7 December 2022. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Howard Park Community 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 | 0.64 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 0.64 miles away, the 20th shortest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance (middle 1.65 miles).
- The Reception last distance was further from the school in 2026 than in 2025 and 2019, and it has swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026, 41 first-choice applications for 29 offers: 29 offers went to first-choice families, so 12 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 59% 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
- St. Peg Lane, Cleckheaton, BD19 3SA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 235 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 7 December 2022
Strengths
- “Strong relationships between pupils and staff contribute to a positive and nurturing atmosphere in the school.”
- “Pupils talk about their feelings of safety and their trust of adults in the school.”
- “Pupils move around the school calmly and with maturity.”
To improve
- “However, the help these pupils get is not closely enough linked to the exact gaps in phonic knowledge these pupils have.”
- “Some pupils with SEND in key stage 2 who are still at the early stages of reading are not assessed regularly enough in order for their phonics support to be precise.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 January 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) | 59% | 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: 41 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Heaton Avenue, A Share Primary Academy 0.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Littletown Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Hightown Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Whitechapel Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Gomersal St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Headlands Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- High Bank Junior Infant and Nursery School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Gomersal Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published