Spen Valley High School
Ofsted: Needs attention
Score
F38
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Liversedge, WF15 7LX
- Distance
- 3.1km away
Whitcliffe Mount
Officially Whitcliffe Mount, A Share Academy
Turnsteads Avenue, Cleckheaton, BD19 3AQ
Local ranking11th of 27 secondary schools in Kirklees
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
1250
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 5 March 2025. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Whitcliffe Mount School (URN 107780) since 1 July 2022. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 45.7 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 48.0% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 67.3% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 248
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 89.0%
- Continued in education
- 78.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 8.0%
- Employment
- 4.0%
- Not sustained
- 8.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1244
- Boys
- 643 (52%)
- Girls
- 585 (48%)
- Capacity
- 1250 (98% full)
- SEND
- 20.3%
- FSM Eligible
- 27.1%
- EAL
- 6.6%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.5%
- SEN Support
- 18.8%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 18.2:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 68.6
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,075/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.4% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 22.6% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 85.8%
- White Other: 3.3%
- Asian Pakistani: 2.4%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.3%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 1.9%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.9%
- Mixed Other: 0.9%
- Asian Indian: 0.7%
85.8%
White British
3.3%
White Other
2.4%
Asian Pakistani
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Turnsteads Avenue
Cleckheaton, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 149162
- UKPRN
- 10090607
- Establishment No.
- 4500
- Trust
- SHARE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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