Bradshaw Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Halifax, Calderdale
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.026 miles
Published by Calderdale Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bradshaw Primary School is a primary school in Halifax, Calderdale for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 11 April 2024. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Bradshaw 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 | 3.026 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 last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 3.026 miles away, the longest of 12 Calderdale primary schools with a published last distance.
- In 2024/25, 78% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years; the 2026 figure was about the same as in 2015 and the longest of the 6 years with a published distance.
- 16.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 52.3% 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
- Ingham Lane, Bradshaw, Halifax, HX2 9PF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 323 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 11 April 2024
Strengths
- “Leaders set high expectations for pupils.”
- “From the early years, pupils are nurtured in an environment rich with learning opportunities.”
- “Pupils are active and enthusiastic learners.”
To improve
- “However, leaders do not analyse the assessment information teachers collect for some subjects as well as they do in others.”
- “They cannot be sure that all pupils are making the best possible progress in some subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 May 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) | 78% | 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: 58 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 58 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.
- Trinity Academy Whitehill 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Abbey Park Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ash Green Community Primary School 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Moorside Community Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Malachy's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dean Field Community Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Wainstalls School 2.1 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Trinity Academy Akroydon 2.3 mi Good Last distance published