Denby Dale First and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–10 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
52.53 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Denby Dale First and Nursery School is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 2–10 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 15 November 2023. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Denby Dale First 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 | 52.53 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 for 2026 lived 52.53 miles from the school, the longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.65 miles).
- That 2026 Reception distance was further than in 2025 and than in 2019, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 8 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 18 first-choice applications for 19 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- The school has 18.7 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kirklees is 22.7.
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
- Gilthwaites Lane, Denby Dale, Huddersfield, HD8 8SG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–10
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 112 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 15 November 2023
Strengths
- “Denby Dale is a nurturing school where leaders have high expectations of pupils.”
- “Staff have worked diligently to develop the curriculum, and pupils now learn through a wide range of subjects.”
- “Staff motivate pupils and help them to succeed, both academically and personally.”
To improve
- “However, not all subjects are well planned in terms of identifying the key knowledge and skills that pupils need to learn.”
- “However, there are limited opportunities for pupils to debate issues and ideas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 18 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 18 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.
- St Aidan's Church of England Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Skelmanthorpe Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Scissett Church of England Academy 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cumberworth CofE First School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kaye's Academy 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Birdsedge First School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Shelley First School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published