Pentland Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Dewsbury, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.77 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Pentland Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Dewsbury, Kirklees for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 March 2023. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Pentland 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 | 0.77 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 0.77 miles away, the 24th shortest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance.
- The Reception 2026 distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2019, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 8 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 36 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 29.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kirklees.
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
- Pentland Road, Savile Town, Dewsbury, WF12 9JR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 144 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pentland is a warm and welcoming school.”
- “Staff are committed to providing effective learning experiences for children.”
- “The school is at the heart of its community.”
To improve
- “While the decisions they have made are informed and aspirational, some subjects are not as developed as others.”
- “However, in other subjects, the curriculum has not been as carefully considered.”
- “Pupils do not learn as effectively in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 36 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Savile Town Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant and Nursery School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School 0.3 mi School remains Good
- Thornhill Lees Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant and Nursery School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Boothroyd Primary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Paulinus Catholic Primary Academy 0.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Earlsheaton Infant School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eastborough Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Overthorpe CofE Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published