Wombwell Park Street Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Barnsley
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.869 miles
Published by Barnsley Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2021 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wombwell Park Street Primary School is a primary school in Barnsley for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 December 2023. Barnsley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2025 entry.
Wombwell Park Street 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 2025 | 0.869 mi |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.869 miles away, the 2nd longest of 4 Barnsley primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance, and nearer than in 2021.
- Reception 2026 had 42 first-choice applications for 42 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 25.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Barnsley.
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
- Park Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0HS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Barnsley
- Pupils on roll
- 346 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 December 2023
Strengths
- “Park Street Primary is a happy place to learn.”
- “Leaders value the contributions that pupils make to the school.”
- “Pupils know that their voice matters.”
To improve
- “Some pupils find it more difficult to manage their feelings and behaviour than others.”
- “In some subjects, the way that knowledge is shared with pupils does not help them to build a secure understanding.”
- “Sometimes, pupils struggle to connect new learning to the things that they already know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 February 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) | 57% | 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: 42 first-preference applications, 42 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 Barnsley.
- Kings Oak Primary 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- High View Primary Learning Centre 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Outwood Primary Academy Darfield 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- The Ellis Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Upperwood Academy 1.3 mi Standards maintained
- All Saints Academy Darfield 1.4 mi Requires improvement
- Jump Primary Academy 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published