Heckmondwike Grammar School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Heckmondwike, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
6.81 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Heckmondwike Grammar School is a secondary school in Heckmondwike, Kirklees for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 April 2022. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Heckmondwike Grammar 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 6.81 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 entry in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 6.81 miles away, the 4th longest of 23 Kirklees secondary schools with a published last distance.
- Year 7 entry in 2026 had 1.7 first choices per offer, the highest of 23 Kirklees secondary schools.
- Year 7 entry in 2026: 355 first-choice applications for 207 offers, with 151 first-choice families not offered a place and 204 offers going to first-choice families.
- In 2024/25, 100% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary 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, Heckmondwike, WF16 0AH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 1,522 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 April 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to come to this school.”
- “They know that the school staff have very high ambitions for them, and pupils rise to these high expectations.”
- “Pupils' positive attitudes towards their peers, teachers and studies reflect these values.”
To improve
- “However, some students with low prior attainment do not achieve as well as their peers nationally.”
- “Leaders have started to provide extra support to these students, but the impact of this work is at an early stage.”
- “However, sometimes, teachers do not always check carefully enough to make sure that all students have understood new material before moving on.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 100% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 80.2 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 355 first-preference applications, 207 offers in total, 204 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Kirklees.
- Spen Valley High School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Westborough High School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Upper Batley High School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Batley Girls' High School 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Mirfield Free Grammar 2.0 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Castle Hall Academy 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Manor Croft Academy 2.4 mi Good Last distance published