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State primary · 4 to 11 · Mixed · Church of England · 240 pupils

St John�s CE Primary School

Boothroyd Lane, Dewsbury, WF13 2LP · Kirklees
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COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · RECEPTION 2027

Offers reached between 0.34 and 0.72 miles in the last 4 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.

Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home. Source: Own admission authority (school or trust); local authority: Kirklees offer-day figures, 2023 to 2026.

Free, no account needed. Your postcode is used for this check and not kept.
Ofsted: Good · September 2024No 2025 resultsOversubscribed · 1.1 first choices per place (2026)

Summary

The key facts, in one place
Inspection
Good, September 2024
Getting in
Oversubscribed; last offer 0.34 mi (2026)
Size
240 pupils; 29 places a year; classes of 30
Faith
Church of England
Run by
Learning Accord Multi Academy Trust
Type
Academy converter
Ages
4 to 11 · Mixed
Ofsted, September 2024The judgements from the school's latest inspection. Reports from November 2025 use Ofsted's new report card, with different headings; we show whichever the latest report uses.Read the report ↗
Quality of educationGood
Behaviour and attitudesGood
Leadership and managementGood
Strengths, and things to check
  • Oversubscribed: 1.1 first choices for each place (Reception 2026).
  • A faith school: read its admission policy for any priority by faith.
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At a glance

Against Kirklees and England
This schoolKirkleesEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
30.0
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
22%
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Reception place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
1.1
More sought after than Kirklees
Kirklees and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state primary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.Where these figures come from →

Overview

Getting in

  • A Church of England school: its admissions policy may give priority by faith. DfE, Get Information about Schools
  • 31 families put it first for 29 places; 27 of them got in DfE, school applications and offers · Reception 2026
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Quality

  • Good Ofsted · inspected 24 September 2024
  • We hold no published results for this school: it may be new, or have no pupils in the tested years.

Daily life

  • Classes average 30.0 pupils; 13% of classes have more than 30 DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 28 m DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
  • 22 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 9 serious) DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 13.8 µg/m³, PM2.5 7.4 (1 km square, background level) DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024
  • Absence and suspension figures are not published for this school (DfE covers state schools only).

Who runs it

  • Learning Accord Multi Academy Trust, with 19 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined December 2025
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 December 2025 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School (URN 107701) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 December 2025
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Getting in

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Reception. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Last distance offeredAdd your home to this chart
1 mi0.50
2023202420252026

Offer day, year by year

EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Reception202630—30—0.34
Reception202530—30—0.36
Reception202430—30—0.72
Reception202330—30—0.7

Source: Council offer-day figures: Own admission authority (school or trust); local authority: Kirklees, 2023 to 2026. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.

Applications and offers, DfE

EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Reception202629319427

Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2026 to 2026. Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Inspections

DateKindOutcome
24 September 2024Graded inspectionQuality of education: Good

Source: Ofsted, 2024.

Daily life

Class sizes and staff

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size30.02025/26
Classes over 30 pupils13%2025/26

Source: DfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

Stops nearby

KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus28

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.

Road collisions within 500 m

YearCollisions
20254
20242
20237
20225
20214

Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 9 serious and 0 fatal in all; 9 involved a pedestrian, 2 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.

Air quality

PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO213.82024
PM1011.42024
PM257.42024

Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.

Pupils

Who goes there

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals22%2025/26
First language other than English45%2025/26
SEN support9.6%2025/26
Education, health and care plan5.4%2025/26
Girls52%2025/26

Source: DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

Who runs it

Who runs it

  • Learning Accord Multi Academy Trust, with 19 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined December 2025
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 December 2025 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced St John's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School (URN 107701) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 December 2025
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Area

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Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: Own admission authority (school or trust); local authority: Kirklees
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

More in schools in Dewsbury and the Kirklees league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.