Moorside Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Halifax, Calderdale
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.611 miles
Published by Calderdale Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Moorside Community Primary School is a primary school in Halifax, Calderdale for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 February 2023. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Moorside Community 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 | 0.611 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 |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.611 miles, the 4th shortest of 12 Calderdale primary schools with a published last distance, and further from the school than in 2025.
- Its 1.3 first choices per offer for Reception 2026 was the 2nd highest of 76 Calderdale primary schools.
- There were 35 first-choice applications for 28 Reception 2026 offers; 27 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families (23%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 55% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Calderdale schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Keighley Road, Ovenden, Halifax, HX2 8AP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 231 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 64.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend Moorside Community Primary School.”
- “The school’s ‘PROUD’ expectations are woven through all aspects of school life.”
- “‘We are all a big family; we all talk to each other and look after each other like a family,’ was a pupil quote that captures the caring and welcoming ethos of the school.”
To improve
- “Further work is needed to help all staff support the lowest-attaining pupils across school by having the necessary reading expertise to enable these pupils to catch up quickly.”
- “Assessment could be strengthened further.”
- “For example, more work is required to ensure all staff carefully assess pupils’ mathematical reasoning and understanding so that those who need the most help receive it swiftly and effectively.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 March 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) | 55% | 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: 35 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 Calderdale.
- Dean Field Community Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Malachy's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Trinity Academy Whitehill 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Abbey Park Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lee Mount Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Trinity Academy Akroydon 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Ash Green Community Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Christ Church Pellon CofE VC Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published