High View Primary Learning Centre
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Barnsley
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.632 miles
Published by Barnsley Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021 figure 🔒
High View Primary Learning Centre is a primary school in Barnsley for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 April 2024. Barnsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
High View Primary Learning Centre 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 2025 | 1.632 mi |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
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 2025 lived 1.632 miles away, the longest of the 4 Barnsley primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.87 miles).
- The 2025 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2021.
- Reception 2026 had 57 first-choice applications for 58 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Barnsley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Newsome Avenue, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 8QS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Barnsley
- Pupils on roll
- 467 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 April 2024
Strengths
- “This is a school that acts as the heart of the community.”
- “Within the walls of the school, there is a feeling of warmth, care and ambition.”
- “This ambition is reflected particularly in how pupils treat one another.”
To improve
- “These pedagogical approaches and structures are not embedded and used by staff consistently.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 June 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) | 64% | 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: 57 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 57 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 Barnsley.
- Kings Oak Primary 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Wombwell Park Street Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Ellis Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Outwood Primary Academy Darfield 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Upperwood Academy 1.4 mi Standards maintained
- Jump Primary Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greenfield Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published