St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior, Infant and Early Years School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Batley, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.28 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior, Infant and Early Years School is a primary school in Batley, Kirklees for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 November 2023. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
St Peter's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior, Infant and Early Years 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 | 1.28 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 in 2026 lived 1.28 miles away, the 50th shortest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.65 miles).
- For Reception in 2026 there were 27 first-choice applications for 28 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 83% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Kirklees that have results.
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
- Fieldhead Lane, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9HN
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 187 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 November 2023
Strengths
- “The school has high expectations for what pupils should learn and experience.”
- “These expectations are realised.”
- “Pupils feel safe in the school and they are happy.”
To improve
- “In some wider curriculum subjects, such as history, the school has included a large amount of information it wants pupils to learn.”
- “While the school has begun to address this, some pupils find it difficult to remember some of the most important knowledge amongst the wide range of information that they access.”
- “However, some activities, such as when children learn independently, are not planned as precisely as they could be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 February 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) | 83% | 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: 27 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 27 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 Patrick's Catholic Primary Academy 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Birstall Primary Academy 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fieldhead Primary Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Gomersal Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Windmill CofE Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Co-op Academy Smithies Moor 1.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Gomersal St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Carlinghow Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published