Kaye's Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–10 · Huddersfield, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.69 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kaye's Academy is a primary school in Huddersfield, Kirklees for ages 3–10 (academy converter). Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Kaye's 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 | 2.69 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2.69 miles away, the 36th longest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.65 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2019, having swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2019 to 2020.
- Reception 2026 drew 19 first-choice applications for 19 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
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
- Holmfield, Clayton West, Huddersfield, HD8 9LZ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–10
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 163 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 17 March 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils feel they are an important part of this caring and friendly school.”
- “They are welcomed warmly each morning, and this helps them begin the day with confidence.”
- “Children in the early years experience this nurturing culture from the moment they arrive.”
To improve
- “It takes longer for some pupils to be secure in early writing.”
- “Early writing develops less securely at first for some pupils.”
- “Where this happens, pupils do not gain accuracy in early transcription as quickly as they could.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 May 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 19 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 19 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.
- Scissett Church of England Academy 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Skelmanthorpe Academy 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Emley First School 1.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Aidan's Church of England Academy 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Denby Dale First and Nursery School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Flockton CofE (C) First School 2.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Denby Church of England Voluntary Aided First School 3.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cumberworth CofE First School 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published