Mount Pellon Primary Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · 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 🔒
Mount Pellon Primary Academy is a primary school in Halifax, Calderdale for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 17 April 2024. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Mount Pellon 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 | 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
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as was the case at 63 of the 77 other Calderdale primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- There were 28 first-choice applications for 30 offers for Reception in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 63% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
- The school has 24.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19 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
- Battinson Road, Halifax, HX1 4RG
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 303 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 49.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 17 April 2024
Strengths
- “Mount Pellon is a welcoming and inclusive school.”
- “The ‘four Rs’ of respect, resilience, responsibility and reflection are central to the life of the school.”
- “Staff notice when pupils display these qualities and reward them for doing so.”
To improve
- “In some subjects in the wider curriculum, the checks that the school makes are not precise enough.”
- “However, it is not clear how well pupils are learning the intended curriculum over time.”
- “In some lessons, the school does not consider the tasks that pupils are given to complete carefully enough.”
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) | 63% | 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: 28 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 28 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.
- St Augustine's CofE School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Christ Church Pellon CofE VC Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lee Mount Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ling Bob Junior, Infant and Nursery School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Beech Hill School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Warley Road Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Parkinson Lane Community Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published