St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Pontefract
Ofsted: Good
Score
D52
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Pontefract, WF8 4AA
- Distance
- 0.6km away
Halfpenny Lane Junior Infant and Nursery School
Halfpenny Lane, Pontefract, WF8 4BW
Local ranking3rd of 111 primary schools in Wakefield
Ofsted: Outstanding
Primary
Phase
420
Capacity
3-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 20 May 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership & management
- Outstanding
- Early years
- Outstanding
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 93.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 26.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 97.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 95.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 95.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 95.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 111.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 110.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 109.0
- Cohort Size
- 58
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 437
- Boys
- 208 (48%)
- Girls
- 229 (52%)
- Capacity
- 420 (104% full)
- SEND
- 16.5%
- FSM Eligible
- 24.0%
- EAL
- 6.4%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.8%
- SEN Support
- 14.7%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 24.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 16.6
- Budget per Pupil
- £5,544/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 3.7% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 7.5% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 88.3%
- Black African: 3.3%
- White Other: 2.6%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.4%
- Other: 0.9%
- Asian Indian: 0.7%
- Asian Other: 0.7%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.5%
88.3%
White British
3.3%
Black African
2.6%
White Other
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Halfpenny Lane
Pontefract, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 139502
- UKPRN
- 10041011
- Establishment No.
- 2147
- Trust
- PONTEFRACT ACADEMIES TRUST
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