Earlsheaton Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · Dewsbury, Kirklees
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.25 miles
Published by Kirklees Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Earlsheaton Infant School is a primary school in Dewsbury, Kirklees for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Kirklees has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Earlsheaton Infant 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 | 1.25 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 entry in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.25 miles away, the 48th shortest of 131 Kirklees primary schools with a published last distance.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years from 2019 to 2026; the 2026 figure was nearer than in 2025 and further than in 2019.
- There were 24 first-choice applications for 27 offers at Reception in 2026, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- The school has 16 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.6 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
- Commercial Street, Earlsheaton, Dewsbury, WF12 8JF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Kirklees
- Pupils on roll
- 80 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 24 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 24 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.
- Orchard Primary Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Eastborough Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bywell Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Savile Town Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pentland Infant and Nursery School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School 1.1 mi School remains Good
- Hanging Heaton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior and Infant School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Shaw Cross Infant and Nursery School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published