St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Batley, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.58 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's Catholic Primary Academy is a primary school in Batley, Kirklees for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 February 2025. Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
St Mary's Catholic 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 | 1.58 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 last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.58 miles away, the 62nd shortest of the 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- That 2026 distance was nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2019; it has swung sharply between some years, most from 2021 to 2022.
- Reception 2026 drew 33 first-choice applications for 34 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 60% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Upton Street, Batley, WF17 8PH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 258 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 February 2025
Strengths
- “This is a school at the heart of its community.”
- “Relationships between staff, pupils, parents and carers are very strong.”
- “They are all very proud of the school.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, teachers do not check pupils’ knowledge adequately, so some pupils do not recall previous learning well.”
- “This hinders how well they build new learning.”
- “However, there are times when teachers move on to new topics before some pupils are ready.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 March 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) | 60% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 34 offers in total, 33 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.
- Batley Parish CofE Primary Academy 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Carlinghow Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Purlwell Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Manorfield Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Field Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Staincliffe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good