Warley Road Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Halifax, Calderdale
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.416 miles
Published by Calderdale Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Warley Road Primary Academy is a primary school in Halifax, Calderdale for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 8 June 2023. Calderdale has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Warley Road Primary 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 | 0.416 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 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.416 miles away, the 2nd shortest of 12 Calderdale primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.26 miles).
- The Reception last distance in 2026 was nearer the school than in 2015, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 64 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Calderdale.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Calderdale schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Warley Road, Halifax, HX1 3TG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Calderdale
- Pupils on roll
- 518 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 8 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy to attend Warley Road Primary Academy.”
- “They look forward to the exciting challenges that leaders plan for them.”
- “Leaders and staff make learning interesting and fun.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, such as history, this work is at an earlier stage of development.”
- “Although pupils remember recent learning well in these subjects, they do not easily recall learning from previous years or link it to their current learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 July 2023 (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) | 70% | 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: 64 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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 Calderdale.
- Parkinson Lane Community Primary School 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Bolton Brow Primary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Christ Church Sowerby Bridge CofE (VA) Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Savile Park Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mount Pellon Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ling Bob Junior, Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Augustine's CofE School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published