Horton Park Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Bradford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.548 miles
Published by Bradford Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Horton Park Primary School is a primary school in Bradford for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 June 2022. Bradford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Horton Park 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 | 2.548 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
- At 2.548 miles, the Reception 2026 last distance offered was the 8th longest of 49 Bradford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception last distances have swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2020 to 2021, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 6 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 49 first-choice applications for 56 offers; 45 offers went to first-choice families and 4 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 54% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Dawnay Road, Bradford, BD5 9LQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Bradford
- Pupils on roll
- 422 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 52.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 June 2022
Strengths
- “Horton Park Primary School is a happy community.”
- “Staff see no limits to what pupils can achieve.”
- “They encourage pupils to follow the five ways to be brilliant.”
To improve
- “Occasionally, the knowledge pupils need to learn is not broken down in sufficient detail.”
- “Teachers are not clear enough about what pupils need to learn and recall.”
- “However, sometimes pupils do not fully engage in learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 July 2022 (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) | 54% | 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: 49 first-preference applications, 56 offers in total, 45 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.
- St Oswald's Church of England Primary Academy 0.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Southmere Primary Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Copthorne Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Marshfield Primary 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Farnham Academy 0.5 mi Good
- All Saints CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained
- Horton Grange Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Newby Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published