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Emley First School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–10 · Community school
School Lane, Emley, Huddersfield HD8 9RT · emleyschool.co.uk · 01924 326802
Overview
- Ofsted
- Outstanding
- 2019 framework · inspected Apr 2024
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Kirklees Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 137
- 91% of 150 places
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 11.7%
- First language not English
- 2.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Kirklees Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 23 families put the school first and 25 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 25 | 23 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 25 | 36 | 1.4▲ | 69% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 19 | 17 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 25 | 31 | 1.2▲ | 81% |
Ofsted
Emley First School was judged Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 10 April 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Outstanding
- Inspected
- 10 Apr 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Outstanding |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, May 2013
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
May 2013Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Nov 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding
What parents said
95% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (40 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 95%
- Replies
- 40
- 31% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 70% who raised concerns
based on the 17% who had a child bullied