Hill View Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.61 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hill View Academy is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 July 2023. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Hill View 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 | 0.61 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
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.61 miles away, the 16th shortest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.65 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2019; the sharpest swing came between 2024 and 2025.
- Of its pupils, 54.6% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 29.3% 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
- Fernside Avenue, Almondbury, Huddersfield, HD5 8YE
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 216 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 54.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 12 July 2023
Strengths
- “Throughout school, the ‘R’ of respect is highly visible through the way pupils interact with each other.”
- “Pupils are surrounded by adults they know care deeply about them and want the best for them.”
- “Leaders’ ambitions for pupils academically and socially are beginning to be realised more consistently.”
To improve
- “Attendance has been a challenge for several years.”
- “However, some of the strategies for identifying families and pupils who need support around attendance need further development.”
- “In some areas of the curriculum, the activity choices and way that teachers teach sometimes do not give pupils the best chance of being successful in their learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 September 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) | 63% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 22 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.
- Dalton School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- All Hallows' CofE (VA) Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Moldgreen Community Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Lowerhouses CofE Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Netherhall Learning Campus Junior School 1.1 mi Good
- Netherhall St James CofE (VC) Infant and Nursery School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Lepton CofE Primary Academy 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published