Mount Pleasant Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.77 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Mount Pleasant Primary School is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 18 October 2022. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Mount Pleasant Primary 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 | 1.77 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
- In 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 1.77 miles, the 62nd longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 1.65 miles.
- The Reception 2026 distance was nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2019; distances swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2019 to 2020.
- Reception 2026 had 82 first-choice applications for 83 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Mount Street, Lockwood, Huddersfield, HD1 3QP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 639 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 18 October 2022
Strengths
- “Everyone feels welcome at Mount Pleasant Primary School.”
- “Leaders, including governors, have worked relentlessly to create an inclusive culture.”
- “Pupils are proud to sing the school anthem ‘Think Big, Aim High, ACHIEVE’.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not always demonstrate these positive behaviours during lunchtimes.”
- “In these subjects, the exact knowledge that leaders want pupils to remember is not clear.”
- “Pupils struggle to explain concepts such as ‘empire’ because there is too much new information for them to recall.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 December 2022 (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) | 65% | 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: 82 first-preference applications, 83 offers in total, 82 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.
- Hillside Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Spring Grove Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Newsome Junior Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Beaumont Primary Academy 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Oak CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Paddock Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Berry Brow Infant and Nursery Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Luck Lane, A Share Primary Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published