The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Horbury Bridge Church of England Junior and Infant Academy

URN 137967 · Primary · Academy converter · Wakefield

Bridge Road, Wakefield, WF4 5PS

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 18 families named Horbury Bridge Church of England Junior and Infant Academy as their first preference, and the school made 15 offers.

That is 1.20 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 90% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 90% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.03 in 2021–2022 and 1.27 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 18 69 15 1.20
2024 20 72 15 1.33
2023 22 72 15 1.47
2022 17 67 15 1.13
2021 13 57 14 0.93
2020 21 72 15 1.40
2019 20 88 15 1.33
2018 15 81 15 1.00
2017 16 76 15 1.07
2016 23 87 15 1.53
2015 12 77 15 0.80
2014 11 70 14 0.79

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 8 February 2023

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 93.0% 13.0% 108.0 109.0
2023/24 93.0% 13.0% 110.0 108.0
2022/23 86.0% 36.0% 109.0 109.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 6.2 5.2 1.0 0.0 16.1%
2023/24 5.2 4.4 0.0 0.8 15.4%
2022/23 5.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 5.9 3.0 0.0 2.9 49.2%
2020/21 5.9 4.9 0.0 1.0 16.9%
2019/20 6.7 5.9 0.0 0.8 11.9%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Horbury Bridge Church of England Junior and Infant Academy.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.