Birdsedge First School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–10 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.24 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Birdsedge First School is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 4–10 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 September 2022. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Birdsedge First 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 | 4.24 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
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered, 4.24 miles, was the 13th longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.65 miles).
- The 2026 Reception distance was further than in 2025 but nearer than in 2019, and it has swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2022 to 2023.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026 (13 first-choice applications for 13 offers); 3 offers went to families outside Kirklees, who made 5 of the 29 applications.
- At this school, 25.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 5.8% 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
- Birdsedge First School, Penistone Road, Birdsedge, Huddersfield, HD8 8XR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–10
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 59 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 September 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy to come to school.”
- “Everyone enjoys this lively start to the day.”
- “Pupils live up to their school motto, ‘Birdsedge Best’, in everything they do.”
To improve
- “Leaders know that they need to continue to embed these improvements to help pupils produce their very best work.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 October 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 13 first-preference applications, 13 offers in total, 13 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.
- Cumberworth CofE First School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shepley First School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shelley First School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Denby Dale First and Nursery School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Hepworth Junior and Infant School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Aidan's Church of England Academy 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Skelmanthorpe Academy 2.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published