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Airedale Junior Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 7–11 · Sponsored academy
Fryston Road, Airedale, 23, Castleford WF10 3EP · airedalejuniorschool.co.uk · 01977 556946
On the mapSearch near WF10 3EP
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Apr 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 62%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Wakefield 63%, England 62%
- Pupils
- 385
- 86% of 448 places
- Local authority
- Wakefield
- Free school meals
- 41%
- First language not English
- 6.5%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Results
In 2024/25, 62% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 4% the higher standard. Across Wakefield it was 63%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ●62% | 62% | ||
| ▼4% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●104 | 106 | ||
| ●104 | 105 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 19 April 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Airedale Junior Academy was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 18 Apr 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Dec 2017
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 108227), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Dec 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Safeguarding Effective Mar 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 108227)
What parents said
81% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (21 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 81%
- Replies
- 21
- 5% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 81% who raised concerns
based on the 33% who had a child bullied