Hanging Heaton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Batley, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.97 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hanging Heaton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School is a primary school in Batley, Kirklees for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 December 2022. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Hanging Heaton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant 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 | 0.97 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 in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.97 miles from the school, the 32nd shortest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 13 first-choice applications for 17 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 75% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 30% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 19.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.6 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
- High Street, Hanging Heaton, Batley, WF17 6DW
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 133 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 December 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils at Hanging Heaton School are happy and enthusiastic.”
- “As one parent said, ‘My children run into school in a morning and skip out in an evening.”
- “This typifies many parents’ comments.”
To improve
- “However, this is not consistent across the curriculum.”
- “In some foundation subjects, the curriculum lacks precise organisation and structure.”
- “In subjects such as art and history, leaders have not accurately identified what pupils should know and what they should be able to do.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 February 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) | 75% | 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: 13 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 13 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.
- Shaw Cross Infant and Nursery School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bywell Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Mill Lane Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Lydgate Junior and Infant School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Field Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Warwick Road Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hyrstmount Junior School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Eastborough Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published