High Bank Junior Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Liversedge, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.25 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
High Bank Junior Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Liversedge, Kirklees for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 22 October 2024. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
High Bank 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 | 3.25 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
- At 44.5%, the share of pupils eligible for free school meals is above the 23.3% middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kirklees.
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 3.25 miles away, further than in 2025 and 2019; the biggest swing between years came from 2025 to 2026.
- Reception 2026 saw 12 first-choice applications for 14 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 30% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 0% 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
- Eighth Avenue, Hightown, Liversedge, WF15 8LD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 128 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 44.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 22 October 2024
Strengths
- “At High Bank School, pupils aspire to the school values of ‘Aim High, Show Respect and Make the Right Choices’.”
- “The school is a caring, kind environment.”
- “Pupils relish being at school.”
To improve
- “On occasion, in some subjects, lesson activity choices are not precise enough in allowing pupils to apply new learning.”
- “Some pupils lose interest in lessons when this happens.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 November 2024 (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) | 30% | 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: 12 first-preference applications, 14 offers in total, 12 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.
- Hightown Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Heaton Avenue, A Share Primary Academy 0.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Hartshead Junior and Infant School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whitechapel Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Howard Park Community School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Roberttown CofE Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Scholes Village Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Headlands Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published