Merlin Top Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Keighley, Bradford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.819 miles
Published by Bradford Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Merlin Top Primary Academy is a primary school in Keighley, Bradford for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 10 October 2024. Bradford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Merlin Top Primary Academy 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 | 2.819 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 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 82% 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 Bradford.
- At 2.819 miles, the 2026 Reception last distance offered was the 5th longest of the 49 Bradford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 0.91 miles).
- That distance was further than in 2015, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published Reception distance.
- 52.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Bradford.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bradford schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Braithwaite Avenue, Keighley, BD22 6HZ
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bradford
- Pupils on roll
- 343 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 52.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 10 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils, their parents and carers, and staff are rightly proud of this remarkable school.”
- “It offers a calm, caring environment in a world that can often feel busy and challenging.”
- “An ethos of kindness runs through the school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 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) | 82% | 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: 43 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 42 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 Bradford.
- Our Lady of Victories Catholic School 0.2 mi Good
- Victoria Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Keighley St Andrew's CofE Primary School and Nursery 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Beckfoot Nessfield 0.6 mi Not judged
- Holycroft Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Laycock Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained