St Aidan's Church of England Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–10 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.94 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Aidan's Church of England Academy is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 4–10 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 28 January 2025. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
St Aidan's Church of England 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 | 1.94 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last place offered went to a child living 1.94 miles away, the 54th longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2019; it has swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2019 to 2020.
- Reception 2026 drew 19 first-choice applications for 19 offers (1.0 per offer, the 25th highest of 123 Kirklees primary schools), and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 5.8% of pupils, against a middle figure of 10.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kirklees.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Kirklees schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Smithy Close, Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield, HD8 9DQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–10
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 137 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 28 January 2025
Strengths
- “They form positive relationships and care for each other, demonstrating the school’s vision to ‘love, laugh, learn and live’.”
- “The school has high expectations of pupils who demonstrate excellent behaviour.”
- “Parents and carers value the school and say the school ‘helps pupils to be the best version of themselves’.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, the knowledge that pupils need is not identified clearly.”
- “This means that pupils’ learning occasionally is less focused on the specific knowledge that they need to know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 19 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 19 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 Kirklees.
- Skelmanthorpe Academy 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Denby Dale First and Nursery School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Scissett Church of England Academy 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cumberworth CofE First School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kaye's Academy 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shelley First School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Emley First School 2.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published