Dean Field Community Primary School
Ofsted: Good
Score
B70
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Location
- Halifax, HX2 8DQ
- Distance
- 0.1km away
St Malachy's Catholic Primary School
Officially St Malachy's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Furness Place, Illingworth, Halifax, HX2 8JY
Local ranking74th of 81 primary schools in Calderdale
Ofsted: Good
Primary
Phase
210
Capacity
3-11
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 1 July 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
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Good
- Early years
- Good
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 58.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 11.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 68.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 63.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 58.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 42.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 102.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 99.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 100.0
- Cohort Size
- 19
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 162
- Boys
- 82 (48%)
- Girls
- 90 (52%)
- Capacity
- 210 (82% full)
- SEND
- 21.0%
- FSM Eligible
- 62.0%
- EAL
- 12.3%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 4.3%
- SEN Support
- 16.7%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 39.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 4.0
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,969/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 8.1% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 21.8% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Religious Character
- Roman Catholic
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 78.9%
- White Other: 11.8%
- Black African: 6.2%
- White Traveller: 1.2%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.6%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.6%
- Asian Chinese: 0.6%
78.9%
White British
11.8%
White Other
6.2%
Black African
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Furness Place
Halifax, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 141480
- UKPRN
- 10047628
- Establishment No.
- 3306
- Trust
- BLESSED PETER SNOW CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST
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