Walsden St Peter's CE (VC) Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Todmorden, Calderdale
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Calderdale Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Walsden St Peter's CE (VC) Primary School is a primary school in Todmorden, Calderdale for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 October 2023. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Walsden St Peter's CE (VC) 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- In 2024/25, 72% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out in 6 of the 9 earlier years with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 19 first-choice applications for 19 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 8 of the 30 applications (27%) came from outside Calderdale.
- Free school meal eligibility is 11.8% of pupils, against a middle figure of 23.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
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
- Rochdale Road, Walsden, Todmorden, OL14 6RN
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 169 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 29.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 October 2023
Strengths
- “Walsden St Peter’s CE (VC) Primary School is a welcoming environment for pupils.”
- “The school emphasises to pupils the importance of resilience, being inquisitive and caring.”
- “This supports the positive relationships pupils have with each other and the staff in school.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, such as design technology, physical education (PE) and history, the school has not identified the precise knowledge that it wants pupils to know and recall.”
- “In addition, pupils do not revisit their learning as often as they should to ensure that they remember what they have been taught.”
- “This is a barrier to pupils achieving as well as they could in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 November 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) | 72% | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 19 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.
- Shade Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Todmorden CofE J, I & N School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Roman Catholic Voluntary Academy 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Castle Hill Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Ferney Lee Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Colden Junior and Infant School 4.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Hebden Royd CofE Primary School 4.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published