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Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Healey Lane, Healey, Batley WF17 8BN · healeyschool.co.uk · 01924 326386
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Apr 2022
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 69%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Kirklees 60%, England 62%
- 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
- 402
- 17 over 385 places · 104%
- Local authority
- Kirklees
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 33.2%
- First language not English
- 40%
- 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, 47 families put the school first and 53 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 | 53 | 47 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 53 | 49 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 55 | 58 | 1.1▲ | 84% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 41 | 37 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 34 | 34 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 69% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 4% the higher standard. Across Kirklees it was 60%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲69% | 62% | ||
| ▼4% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●104 | 106 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Healey Junior Infant and Nursery School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 26 April 2022, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 26 Apr 2022
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Sept 2016
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 107638), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Sept 2016Inadequate
Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Safeguarding Not effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 107638)
What parents said
93% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (28 replies, to 2 April 2023).
- Recommend
- 93%
- Replies
- 28
- 8% · 2 Apr 2023
based on the 82% who raised concerns
based on the 46% who had a child bullied