Siddal Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Halifax, 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 🔒
Siddal Primary School is a primary school in Halifax, Calderdale for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 20 September 2023. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Siddal 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, 32% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
- Reception 2026 drew 17 first-choice applications for 17 offers and every applicant was offered a place; places ran out in 2 of the 10 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Of its pupils, 39.6% are eligible for free school meals, above the middle figure of 27.6% 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
- Backhold Lane, Siddal, Halifax, HX3 9DL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 169 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 20 September 2023
Strengths
- “Siddal Primary School is a calm and welcoming place to learn.”
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are positive and underpinned by care.”
- “Leaders have built a culture of openness and honesty that helps pupils to feel safe and to share their worries if they want to.”
To improve
- “The ambition leaders have for how pupils should behave is beginning to be reflected in their ambitions for what pupils can achieve academically.”
- “In some foundation subjects, the knowledge and vocabulary the school wishes pupils to learn needs to be clearer to help staff make the best activity choices to help pupils to learn.”
- “In phonics lessons, there are some inconsistent approaches used to help pupils read unfamiliar words.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 October 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) | 32% | 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: 17 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 17 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.
- Salterhebble Junior and Infant School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- All Saints' CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Copley Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Withinfields Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holy Trinity Primary School, A Church of England Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- West Vale Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Savile Park Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published