Parkwood Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Keighley, Bradford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Bradford Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Parkwood Primary School is a primary school in Keighley, Bradford for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 21 May 2025. Bradford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Parkwood 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 | 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 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 85 of the 137 other Bradford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 20 first-choice applications for 21 offers, while places ran out in 1 of the 5 earlier years with a published Reception outcome.
- In 2024/25, 44% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Bradford.
- There are 17.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.4 across 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
- Parkwood Street, Keighley, BD21 4QH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bradford
- Pupils on roll
- 191 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 21 May 2025
Strengths
- “This aspiration is being met for the vast majority of pupils.”
- “Pupils are learning effectively.”
- “Behaviour in lessons and at social times is calm and purposeful.”
To improve
- “However, when they do, the support they receive is variable.”
- “However, pupils do not get enough opportunities to practise new learning over time.”
- “As a result, some pupils are unable to recall and use that mathematics accurately just a few weeks later.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 September 2025 (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) | 44% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 20 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.
- Long Lee Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Eastwood Community School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Holycroft Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Keighley St Andrew's CofE Primary School and Nursery 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained
- Victoria Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Ingrow Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published